By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Agustín Almodóvar | Dash | Miguel Almodóvar | Pablo Almodóvar | Tilda Swinton
Original language title: La vox humana
Year: 2020
Running time: 30
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11760792/reference/
Diane says: “THE HUMAN VOICE, stars Tilda Swinton, so you’re already feeling good. Made in 2020, it’s an adaptation of a play Jean Cocteau wrote for his actresses to show their full range of emotions. Swinton plays a ‘woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown,’ who wears earpods to talk to the lover who abandoned her after four years. A prologue has Swinton in a hardware store buying an axe, which the clerk carefully wraps up like a bouquet of flowers—funny! The second actor is a dog, Dash, who is very good. I thought I recognized him, but this is his first film. The film’s artifice is emphasized by shots showing the actual soundstage, and the roofless apartment set seen from above. High marks for costume design. 3 cats.”