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My Case

67% | Sep 25, 1986 | Drama, Fantasy

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.

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Manoel de Oliveira
Director
Samuel Beckett
Author

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Bulle Ogier
Actrice n° 1
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Fred Personne
L'Auteur
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Wladimir Ivanovsky
Le spectateur

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