My Case (1986)

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.

My Case is a 1986 movie. Genres: Drama, Fantasy. Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. Main cast: Bulle Ogier, Axel Bogousslavsky, Luís Miguel Cintra, Fred Personne, Wladimir Ivanovsky. Runtime: 91 minutes. Its average rating is 6.9 out of 10, from 7 votes.