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 Almodóvar’s 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. She is on a phone call with her ex, though we only hear her end of the conversation as she pads about her tasteful apartment wearing AirPods and an array of haute couture outfits. There are cultural trappings galore: her DVDs, art books, Chanel bags, paintings. Even the axe she buys looks designer.
It is based on a Jean Cocteau play from 1930, but Pedro Almodóvar’s 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. She is on a phone call with her ex, though we only hear her end of the conversation as she pads about her tasteful apartment wearing AirPods and an array of haute couture outfits. There are cultural trappings galore: her DVDs, art books, Chanel bags, paintings. Even the axe she buys looks designer.
- 11/2/2020
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
‘The Human Voice’ Review: We’re All Tilda Swinton in Almodóvar’s Bracing Short — Just Not as Stylish
A freshly minted English-language Almodóvar melodrama starring Tilda Swinton, “The Human Voice” would be one of the hottest tickets at the Venice Film Festival if it weren’t for the small point that it is just 30 minutes long. Still, it’s not size that counts, but what you do with it, and Almódovar does so much in half an hour that it is bound to be rated as one of the Festival’s highlights, anyway. This is the pure, distilled essence of both the veteran director and the actress. Feast your eyes on those mustard-coloured kitchen cabinets! Bow down before those leopard-print stilettos! Any more than 30 minutes might have been too much to take.
“Freely adapted” from the play by Jean Cocteau, the film begins, after a brief, surreal prologue, with Swinton browsing in a hardware store. (Check out that suitcase-sized black handbag! Place your order for that blue double-breasted trouser suit!
“Freely adapted” from the play by Jean Cocteau, the film begins, after a brief, surreal prologue, with Swinton browsing in a hardware store. (Check out that suitcase-sized black handbag! Place your order for that blue double-breasted trouser suit!
- 9/3/2020
- by Nicholas Barber
- Indiewire
” Oh, come on now, Edith. Please, please, let’s be honest with ourselves. You weren’t thinking any more of Dick than i was. “
Film Detective (Tfd), a leading classic media streaming network and film archive that restores and distributes classic films for today’s cord-cutters, is proud to announce The Sin Of Nora Moran (1933) will be available to audiences this summer on DVD and in a special, limited-edition Blu-ray collectible.
The Sin Of Nora Moran will be available for purchase July 29 on DVD ($19.99) and in a collectible limited-edition Blu-ray ($24.99). With only 1,500 Blu-ray editions available, fans can reserve a copy by pre-ordering now at: https://www.thefilmdetective.com/the-sin-of-nora-moran
The Poverty Row, Pre-Code marvel that stunned audiences when released in 1933 stars Zita Johann as Nora Moran, a young woman sentenced to death for a murder she did not commit. Awaiting her sentence, Nora explores the patterns of her life in a dream-like haze,...
Film Detective (Tfd), a leading classic media streaming network and film archive that restores and distributes classic films for today’s cord-cutters, is proud to announce The Sin Of Nora Moran (1933) will be available to audiences this summer on DVD and in a special, limited-edition Blu-ray collectible.
The Sin Of Nora Moran will be available for purchase July 29 on DVD ($19.99) and in a collectible limited-edition Blu-ray ($24.99). With only 1,500 Blu-ray editions available, fans can reserve a copy by pre-ordering now at: https://www.thefilmdetective.com/the-sin-of-nora-moran
The Poverty Row, Pre-Code marvel that stunned audiences when released in 1933 stars Zita Johann as Nora Moran, a young woman sentenced to death for a murder she did not commit. Awaiting her sentence, Nora explores the patterns of her life in a dream-like haze,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Mamie Van Doren Film Noir Collection
Blu ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 – 1959 / 1.75:1, 1.85:1, / 216 Min. / Street Date – November 20, 2018
Starring Mamie Van Doren, Anne Bancroft, Lee Van Cleef, Lex Barker
Cinematography by Stanley Cortez, William Margulies
Directed by Howard Koch, Edward Cahn
Mamie Van Doren, née Joan Lucille Olander, was born in Rowena, South Dakota in 1931. In 1942 the family relocated to Hollywood where the camera-ready kid blossomed at the speed of light – a Pantages usherette at the age of 13, she racked up a string of attention-grabbing gigs that led to a reign as Miss Eight Ball and the inevitable merger with Tinseltown’s preeminent lounge lizard, Howard Hughes.
That arrangement generated a distinctly higher-profile for the industrious starlet – from an eye-popping Alberto Vargas pinup to swivel-hipped walk-ons in a series of forgettable potboilers and finally a contract at Universal. A cheeky studio exec christened her “Mamie” thereby hijacking the name of President...
Blu ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 – 1959 / 1.75:1, 1.85:1, / 216 Min. / Street Date – November 20, 2018
Starring Mamie Van Doren, Anne Bancroft, Lee Van Cleef, Lex Barker
Cinematography by Stanley Cortez, William Margulies
Directed by Howard Koch, Edward Cahn
Mamie Van Doren, née Joan Lucille Olander, was born in Rowena, South Dakota in 1931. In 1942 the family relocated to Hollywood where the camera-ready kid blossomed at the speed of light – a Pantages usherette at the age of 13, she racked up a string of attention-grabbing gigs that led to a reign as Miss Eight Ball and the inevitable merger with Tinseltown’s preeminent lounge lizard, Howard Hughes.
That arrangement generated a distinctly higher-profile for the industrious starlet – from an eye-popping Alberto Vargas pinup to swivel-hipped walk-ons in a series of forgettable potboilers and finally a contract at Universal. A cheeky studio exec christened her “Mamie” thereby hijacking the name of President...
- 12/8/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
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