My Case

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 avantgarde 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 peoples misery when you have your own