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Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton: ‘I love the idea of the woman on the edge of the abyss’ – The Guardian
The director and actor have finally achieved ‘a far-fetched dream’ by working together on his first film in English, The Human Voice. They talk about their mutual…
For more than 30 years, the film-maker Pedro Almodóvar has had a voice in his head The Human Voice, that is. In Jean Cocteaus monologue, first performed in 1930, a woman goes to pieces during a telephone conversation with her soon-to-be-ex lover. The audience hears only one side of the exchange, lending her the upper hand in the drama at the precise moment she has been robbed of everything else.
Almodóvar has now adapted Cocteaus piece into a typically plush half-hour short starring Tilda Swinton…
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