My Case

Few filmmakers are as free as Manoel de Oliveira. Few are equally crazy. Mon cas goes beyond reasonable. In full awareness. Resorting to José Régio’s eponymous piece, an excerpt from Beckett’s Pour finir encore et autres foirades and the biblical Book of Job, Oliveira blends it all. And contrarily to what he has gotten us used to, but in line with the general mess, he puts aside sequence shots and multiplies cuts. In the service of this mise en abîme, even more inhibited than mashed, an exceptional French cast headed by the blessing of Luis Miguel Cintra.