2020 · drama · music
The Human Voice
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar30m2020
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
Our read: The Human Voice (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- intimate
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