My Case (1986)
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.
Cast
Bulle Ogier
Actrice n° 1
Luís Miguel Cintra
L'Intrus
Fred Personne
L'Auteur
Grégoire Oestermann
Le projectionniste
Henri Serre
Voix-off (voice)
Teresa Madruga
Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)
