The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice

The Human Voice

Movie genre
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Length
30 min
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Release
2020
Cast

Tilda Swinton, Agustín Almodóvar, Miguel Almodóvar, Pablo Almodóvar, Diego Pajuelo, Carlos García Cambero

The Human Voice is the first film by Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton and, at the same time, the first English-language production by the Spanish director. This thoroughly Almodóvar-like melodrama, brimming with color and bursting with emotion, successfully combines two temperaments, sensibilities and cinematic elements. The unmistakable style of the creator of Talk to Her seems tailor-made for a Jarmusch or Guadagnino star, like the demented red Balenciaga gown in which a pale Tilda Swinton walks across the set of Almodóvar's film. Her character - in love, humiliated, desperate - has her last phone conversation with the man who left her. In her apartment, accompanied by her lover's packed suitcases and his orphaned dog, flitting from rage to sadness, she digests the love disaster. She reaches for the pills, grabs an axe, spills gasoline: she would like to kill herself, she would like to destroy him, she wants to play the role of a lifetime in the drama called separation. She changes costumes and masks, tries on conventions, begs, screams and whispers: she checks whether this story should end in tragedy or perhaps in a happy ending?

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