Movielogr
My Case (1986)
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira
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.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Bulle Ogier | Axel Bogousslavsky | Luís Miguel Cintra | Fred Personne | Wladimir Ivanovsky | Héloïse Mignot | Grégoire Oestermann | Henri Serre | Teresa Madruga