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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Bulle OgierActrice n° 1
Luís Miguel CintraL'Intrus
Fred PersonneL'Auteur
Grégoire OestermannLe projectionniste
Henri SerreVoix-off (voice)
Teresa MadrugaActrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Writer
- Jacques Parsi
- Director of Photography
- Mário Barroso
- Writer
- José Régio
- Producer
- Paulo Branco
- Screenplay
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Editor
- Rudolfo Wedeles
- Original Music Composer
- João Paes