My Case (1986)
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.
- Released
- 1986-09-25
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Manoel de Oliveira, Manoel de Oliveira
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 7 votes
Cast
- Bulle Ogier as Actrice n° 1
- Axel Bogousslavsky as L'Employé
- Luís Miguel Cintra as L'Intrus
- Fred Personne as L'Auteur
- Wladimir Ivanovsky as Le spectateur
- Héloïse Mignot as Actrice nº 2
- Grégoire Oestermann as Le projectionniste
- Henri Serre as Voix-off (voice)
- Teresa Madruga as Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)