The Human Voice (2020)
(La voz humana)
Country: SP
Technical: col 30m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Tilda Swinton
Synopsis:
A woman wanders around her apartment waiting for the man who has just left her after four years to ring.
Review:
Almodóvar weds his distinctively bold-chic mise-en-scène to Cocteau's classic play, previously filmed by Rossellini for the diptych, L'amore (1948 q.v.). It is not the tour de force of acting Magnani provided; Swinton is more modern, more reined-in, more Anglo-Saxon (is the director having a joke?). A dog offers further humour, and we have a boxed set pushing theatricality to its limits, further underlined by the actress leaving the (ground floor) location with dog at the end. At times self-consciously riffing other Almodóvar films (La Flor, and above all Mujeres), this is a personal re-casting of the original, as a remake should be, but cannot get away from its essential flaw (or strength?): no one really wants to see the end of an affair when they have missed all the fun.
(La voz humana)
Country: SP
Technical: col 30m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Tilda Swinton
Synopsis:
A woman wanders around her apartment waiting for the man who has just left her after four years to ring.
Review:
Almodóvar weds his distinctively bold-chic mise-en-scène to Cocteau's classic play, previously filmed by Rossellini for the diptych, L'amore (1948 q.v.). It is not the tour de force of acting Magnani provided; Swinton is more modern, more reined-in, more Anglo-Saxon (is the director having a joke?). A dog offers further humour, and we have a boxed set pushing theatricality to its limits, further underlined by the actress leaving the (ground floor) location with dog at the end. At times self-consciously riffing other Almodóvar films (La Flor, and above all Mujeres), this is a personal re-casting of the original, as a remake should be, but cannot get away from its essential flaw (or strength?): no one really wants to see the end of an affair when they have missed all the fun.
(La voz humana)
Country: SP
Technical: col 30m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Tilda Swinton
Synopsis:
A woman wanders around her apartment waiting for the man who has just left her after four years to ring.
Review:
Almodóvar weds his distinctively bold-chic mise-en-scène to Cocteau's classic play, previously filmed by Rossellini for the diptych, L'amore (1948 q.v.). It is not the tour de force of acting Magnani provided; Swinton is more modern, more reined-in, more Anglo-Saxon (is the director having a joke?). A dog offers further humour, and we have a boxed set pushing theatricality to its limits, further underlined by the actress leaving the (ground floor) location with dog at the end. At times self-consciously riffing other Almodóvar films (La Flor, and above all Mujeres), this is a personal re-casting of the original, as a remake should be, but cannot get away from its essential flaw (or strength?): no one really wants to see the end of an affair when they have missed all the fun.