Mon cas

May 8 1987 N/A 1h 32m
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.

Plot

Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.

Written by

Manoel de Oliveira, José Régio, Samuel Beckett

Directed by

Manoel de Oliveira

Cast

Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky

Crew

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Production Countries

France, Portugal

Languages

Français

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
243
Average Rating
6.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA