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My Case (1986)

My Case (1986)

Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1986, September 25
Directors: Manoel de Oliveira
Countries: France, Portugal
Cast: Grégoire Oestermann, Henri Serre, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Bulle Ogier, Axel Bogousslavsky, Fred Personne, Wladimir Ivanovsky, Héloïse Mignot

Overview:

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.