The Human Voice (2018 film)

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film is the sort of feature that seeks to capture abstract but tangible emotion through loose allegory, hence its phenomenal Rotten Tomatoes score vs. its middling IDMB rating. I can understand how many would come to be frustrated with “Human”, but I found it fascinating. Tilda Swinton, for all her accolades, doesn’t get enough credit for her acting chops, and for as good as Almodóvar is at capturing his tableaus, “Voice” is Swinton’s accomplishment above all else, basically working as actor, expositor, and acting for someone else through second-person perspective. Fantastic stuff I “think I get”.

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