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.
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Axel Bogousslavsky, Luís Miguel Cintra, Fred Personne, Wladimir Ivanovsky, Héloïse Mignot
Crew: Manoel de Oliveira (Director), Samuel Beckett (Author), Jacques Parsi (Writer), Mário Barroso (Director of Photography), José Régio (Writer), Joaquim Pinto (Sound Designer)
Country: France, Portugal
Language: Français
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Runtime: 91 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 25, 1986
IMDb: 4.3
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