My Case

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.

Cast

Bulle Ogier Actrice n° 1 Axel Bogousslavsky L'Employé Luís Miguel Cintra L'Intrus Fred Personne L'Auteur Wladimir Ivanovsky Le spectateur Héloïse Mignot Actrice nº 2 Grégoire Oestermann Le projectionniste Henri Serre Voix-off (voice) Teresa Madruga Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)

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