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The Human Voice (Spanish: La voz humana) is a 2020 Spanish drama short film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau. [5] It stars Tilda Swinton and is Almodóvar's first film acted in English. The film had its world premiere at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2020 ...
Apr 14, 2022 · The Human Voice or La Voix Humaine appears to be having something of a revival. Written nearly a hundred years ago, the female monodrama chronicles the harrowing, climactic end of a relationship played out over the phone. Think of it as a ‘last call to your lover’.
Apr 13, 2022 · This new film of La Voix Humaine (to be shown on BBC Two on Good Friday) is directed by James Kent (Aftermath, Testament of Youth) and designed by Peter Francis, with cinematography from Laurie Rose and edited by Rachel Durance.
The Human Voice (French: La voix humaine) is a monodrama first staged at the Comédie-Française in 1930, written two years earlier by Jean Cocteau. [1] It is set in Paris, where a still-quite-young woman is on the phone with her lover of the last five years.
- Jean Cocteau
- 1930
Apr 1, 2021 · The first English-language film from the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar stars Tilda Swinton and adapts Jean Cocteau to sublime results.
- 30 min
- Glenn Kenny
Apr 6, 2022 · La Voix humaine is broadcast on BBC Two at 10pm on 15th April. Poulenc on primetime: Francis Poulenc's opera, based on Cocteau's play, comes to the small screen this Easter, filmed on location in Paris and starring soprano Danielle de Niese.
Apr 14, 2022 · Composed by Francis Poulenc, and first performed in 1959, the one-act opera lets us listen in to a telephone conversation, as a woman pleads and cajoles her former lover, asking him to reconsider...
