Entertainment
Home alone: how Almodóvar’s new film finds innovation in lockdown – The Guardian
The Tilda Swinton-starring short addresses the isolation of our Covid era, while also revealing cinema’s ability to adapt to it
It is based on a Jean Cocteau play from 1930, but Pedro Almodóvars The Human Voice could well be the movie that best captures our bizarre modern times. Being Almodóvar, it does so with consummate elegance, controlled melodrama and enviable home decor, but this one-room, one-person, half-hour piece somehow expresses both our own feelings of domestic isolation and the unstable ground of cinema itself.
The set-up speaks to our lockdown neuroses: Tilda Swinton indoors, alone and increasingly distraught….
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