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.
Manoel de Oliveira
Director
Jacques Parsi
Writer
José Régio
Writer
Bulle Ogier
Actrice n° 1
Axel Bogousslavsky
L'Employé
Luís Miguel Cintra
L'Intrus
Fred Personne
L'Auteur
Wladimir Ivanovsky
Le spectateur
Héloïse Mignot
Actrice nº 2
Grégoire Oestermann
Le projectionniste
Henri Serre
Voix-off (voice)
Teresa Madruga
Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)
Nine Days68%
Northfork59%
24 Jours66%
Gagarine66%
Lux Æterna60%
L'Écume des jours61%
The Shepherd68%
Michou d'Auber64%
Frères ennemis58%
Kompromat63%
Mexicali77%
Tuesday67%
Rogue Agent63%
Skater Girl72%
Un Illustre inconnu63%
Night of the Sicario58%
Run60%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Chanson douce60%
Le ciel attendra69%
