Pedro Almodóvar Makes It To Venice Film Festival

The renowned Spanish director will show “The Human Voice” starring Tilda Swinton.

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In an unexpected turn of events, “The Human Voice” — Pedro Amodóvar’s English-language debut featuring Tilda Swinton — has just been added to the 2020 Venice Film Festival lineup. The Spanish director has just started production on the short film last month, making for an impressive turnaround from filming in July to having a world premiere in early September.
“I am very excited about coming back to Venice in such a special year, with COVID -19 as an involuntary guest,” Almodóvar said in a statement. “Everything will be different, and I am looking forward to discovering it in person. It is an honor to accompany Tilda in a year in which she is receiving a very much deserved award. As a matter of fact, ‘The Human Voice’ is a festival of Tilda, a display of her infinite and assorted registers as an actress. It’s been a spectacle to direct her.”
For Almodóvar, “The Human Voice” is a follow-up to Cannes winner “Pain and Glory,” also nominated for an Oscar in Best International Feature Film category earlier this year. According to the Venice Film Festival, it is “a very free adaptation of the original stage play by Jean Cocteau, with which Pedro Almodóvar has been dreaming of for decades. It tells the story of a desperate woman (Swinton), who waits for the phone call of the lover who has just abandoned her. It marks Pedro Almodóvar’s first time shooting in English.” The short film is set to run for approximately 30 minutes.
The star of the forthcoming film, Swinton is receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement this year, an award Almodóvar was honored with at the 2019 festival. Get your first look at “The Human Voice” in the post below:

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