Pedro Almodóvar’s THE HUMAN VOICE opens Theatrically Friday, April 2 at Film Forum: [ Ссылка ]

Playing with WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Theatrical ticketing only – not available in Virtual Cinema

An elegant wraithlike woman (the inimitable Tilda Swinton), a fidgety dog, a chicly furnished apartment, an ax. In his short film THE HUMAN VOICE – based freely on the stage play by Jean Cocteau – master auteur Pedro Almodóvar takes a minimalist concept (“a text and an actress”) and experiments like never before. Working for the first time in English and in short form, while hybridizing elements of cinema and theater via a stunning “fourth wall” set design, Almodóvar distills the intense despair of eros in crisis: desire unrequited and a modern woman facing the abyss of abandonment. In a taut, tour-de-force performance, Swinton brings this woman to life—nerves frayed, pining and unhinged, yet not devoid of self-respect. The human voice is hers alone, one side of a final phone conversation with her lover who, three days gone, has yet to retrieve his belongings. In the director’s own words, this brief masterpiece is about “the disorientation and distress” of grief. At the same time, it is an exhilarating assertion of life and beauty.

2020 30 MINS. USA / SPAIN IN ENGLISH SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

Playing with WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, Almodóvar’s multiple award-winning, cult-classic black comedy (based on the same Cocteau play and starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas).

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