My Case (1986) — drama, fantasy film. Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. Starring Bulle Ogier, Axel Bogousslavsky, Luís Miguel Cintra, Fred Personne. This page maps 8 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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Experimental film exploring suffering and empathy through three distinct narrative forms
Drama, Fantasy · 6.9/10 · 91 min · 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.
Related entry on Wikidata (Q3280841), public domain (CC0).