The Human Voice La voz humana

Pedro Almodóvar / Spain / 2020 / 30 min / English

A woman watches the time pass, sitting around her flat with the suitcases her ex-lover has promised to collect but never does, and with a restless dog who fails to understand his master has abandoned him. Over the course of three days, she only goes out once – to buy an axe and a can of gasoline… Pedro Almodóvar loosely adapted his first English-language film from Jean Cocteau’s eponymous stage play.

directed by Pedro Almodóvar, cast Tilda Swinton, ,

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