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.
Unfortunately the movie My Case is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Manoel de Oliveira | Director |
Writing | Samuel Beckett | Author |
Writing | Manoel de Oliveira | Screenplay |
Writing | José Régio | Writer |
Writing | Jacques Parsi | Writer |
Production | Paulo Branco | Producer |
Camera | Mário Barroso | Director of Photography |
Art | Zé Branco | Production Design |
Sound | Joaquim Pinto | Sound Designer |
Editing | Rudolfo Wedeles | Editor |
Art | Luís Monteiro | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Véronique Vincent | Makeup Artist |
Sound | João Paes | Original Music Composer |