My Case (1986)
Mon Cas
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.
- Date of release
- 1986-09-25
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- Manoel de Oliveira
Casting
- Bulle Ogier — Actrice n° 1
- Axel Bogousslavsky — L'Employé
- Luís Miguel Cintra — L'Intrus
- Fred Personne — L'Auteur
- Wladimir Ivanovsky — Le spectateur
- Héloïse Mignot — Actrice nº 2
- Grégoire Oestermann — Le projectionniste
- Henri Serre — Voix-off (voice)
- Teresa Madruga — Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)
Interesting facts
My Case is a 1986 drama-fantasy film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It entered the main competition at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival. The film is based on the play of the same name by José Régio, but also on the Book of Job as well as texts by Samuel Beckett.
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