My Case

France

• 1986-09-25
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  Drama,

  Fantasy
• ▪ 1h-31m

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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.

• Manoel de OliveiraDirector

  Samuel BeckettAuthor

  Zé BrancoProduction Design

  Jacques ParsiWriter

  Paulo BrancoProducer

  José RégioWriter