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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.

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  • Bulle Ogier

    Bulle Ogier

    Actrice n° 1

  • Axel Bogousslavsky

    Axel Bogousslavsky

    L'Employé

  • Luis Miguel Cintra

    Luis Miguel Cintra

    L'Intrus

  • Fred Personne

    Fred Personne

    L'Auteur

  • Wladimir Ivanovsky

    Wladimir Ivanovsky

    Le spectateur

  • Héloïse Mignot

    Héloïse Mignot

    Actrice nº 2

  • Grégoire Oestermann

    Grégoire Oestermann

    Le projectionniste

  • Henri Serre

    Henri Serre

    Voix-off (voice)

  • Teresa Madruga

    Teresa Madruga

    Actrice nº 1 (voice) (uncredited)

Overview

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.

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