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La Voz Humana Screenbox LA VOZ HUMANA SCREENBOX FICHA NÚM. 2.315 T.O.: THE HUMAN VOICE NACIONALIDAD: ESPAÑA Estreno Screenbox: 21-10-2.020 DURACIÓN: 30’ Estreno España: 21-10-2.020 AÑO: 2.020 WWW.SCREENBOX.CAT TEL: 630 743 981 PI I MARGALL, 26. LLEIDA FICHA ARTÍSTICA DEL DIRECTOR: Mujer: Tilda Swinton PEDRO ALMODÓVAR (Calzada de Calatrava, 25-09-1.949) FICHA TÉCNICA -La Voz Humana (2.020) Director: Pedro Almodóvar -Dolor y Gloria (2.019) Guion: Pedro Almodóvar -La Piel que Habito (2.011) (basado en el relato de -Los Abrazos Rotos (2.009) Jean Cocteau) -Volver (2.006) Productores: Agustín Almodóvar, -Hable con Ella (2.002) Esther García -Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1.999) Música: Alberto Iglesias -La Flor de Mi Secreto (1.995) Fotografía: José Luis Alcaine -Tacones Lejanos (1.991) Montaje: Teresa Font -Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (1.988) SINOPSIS -La Ley del Deseo (1.987) Una mujer pasa el tiempo miran- -¿Qué He Hecho Yo Para Merecer do las maletas de su ex-amante, Esto? (1.984) que la abandona para contraer -Laberinto de Pasiones (1.982) matrimonio con otra mujer. Du- -Pepi, Luci, Bom y Otras Chicas del rante tres días, la mujer sólo sale Montón (1.980) a la calle una vez: para comprar un hacha y una lata de gasolina. PREMIOS Y PRESENCIA EN Adaptación libre del relato homó- FESTIVALES nimo de Jean Cocteau. -Sección Oficial (fuera de concur- so): Festival de Venecia (2.020) FILMOGRAFÍA (seleccionada) “LA VOZ HUMANA”, UN ACTO DE LIBERTAD EN EL “Yo casi de un modo natural quería hacer algo CAMBIO DE CICLO DE ALMODÓVAR absolutamente ya no solo distinto, sino casi opuesto, (publicado por Efe en lavanguardia.com) porque de otro modo no reconocía como contemporánea a la mujer que espera y habla con su examante”, declaró. El cineasta Pedro Almodóvar ideó su primer cortometraje, “La Voz Humana”, presentado [...] en Venecia, como “un Su mujer, una soberbia Tilda Swinton, habla con modernos experimento” de libertad. Por ello desbarató el clásico de auriculares inalámbricos, vaga desesperada por una casa Jean Cocteau, lo hizo además en inglés y modernizó a su de diseño y halla una efímera idea de redención en un desconsolada protagonista, a quien da vida Tilda Swinton. hacha y en los ansiolíticos a la espera de que el teléfono suene con “su” voz. “Creo que será la última vez que volveré a molestar el texto de Cocteau con mi adaptación”, bromeó el realizador Así, se diría que en los ojos de la dama se percibe cierto manchego, quien ha regresado a la Mostra veneciana un aire de bravura cuando afronta la encrucijada del desamor, año después de recibir su León de Oro honorífico para cuando debe decantarse entre morir y descansar o vivir estrenar fuera de concurso esta obra. desconsolada, en llamas. “La Voz Humana”, su primer cortometraje y debut con El director señaló que embarcarse en esta aventura ha sido el inglés, es una libérrima adaptación del monólogo de todo “un capricho” y lo ha vivido como un “experimento Cocteau (1930) en el que una mujer abandonada suplica de libertad”. por teléfono el regreso de su amante. Es un texto que de hecho ha asomado en varias ocasiones en la filmografía Todo el corto está bañado por una importante impronta del director español. Carmen Maura lo emula en “La Ley teatral. La cámara rompe la cuarta pared para salir de los del Deseo” (1987) y estuvo en el origen mismo de “Mujeres decorados y mostrar las oscuras paredes del estudio de al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios” (1988), una de sus cine donde se rodó y las pantallas verdes de los croma se obras más aplaudidas. envuelven en forma de telones. “Ha sido muy fértil y de algún modo la situación de una Esa libertad la demuestra el hecho de que poco o nada mujer abandonada, sola al borde de la locura junto a quede del texto original de Cocteau. “Han desaparecido un perro también abandonado y con quien comparte el la mayor parte de las palabras de Cocteau. No es corregir duelo y un montón de maletas ya hechas es una situación un clásico, sino digerirlo de un modo absolutamente mío dramática que siempre me estimuló”, dijo. que implicaba reescribir el texto y respetar la situación de soledad, desesperación y duelo de esta mujer que está a El capricho de Pedro la espera”, confesó. Sin embargo “La Voz Humana” cambia en el universo de Almodóvar, queda desbaratado y poco tiene que ver con Los cortos en pleno cambio de ciclo la sumisión de otras famosas actrices que lo interpretaron, Por otro lado esta obra también sigue la senda del cambio como Anna Magnani en “L’Amore” (1948) de Rossellini o de ciclo que Almodóvar inició con “Julieta” (2016) y Ingrid Bergman para Ted Kotcheff. continuó con su último largo, “Dolor y Gloria” (2019). “De un modo consciente muy palpable, desde “Julieta” Para atisbar la translúcida verdad que yace más allá del estoy derivando en una narración mucho más contenida manierismo colorista de “The Human Voice”, resulta donde los elementos son cada vez menos pero trato de interesante comparar la película con sus antecesoras más ir lo más profundamente que puedo”, declaró durante la directas, empezando por la puesta en escena teatral del presentación. texto de Cocteau que el propio Almodóvar insirió en la trama de “La Ley del Deseo”. Allí, Carmen Maura se paseaba El corto se enmarca en este periodo pero no es ni por asomo por un escenario en claroscuro destruyéndolo todo con un “contenido”, tal y como reconoció él mismo, pero asimismo hacha mientras su hija en la ficción cantaba el mítico “Ne indica “un cambio de ciclo” en su vida que se debe, dijo, “a Me Quitte Pas” (capa sobre capa sobre capa). Antes de eso, la biología”, la edad, porque grabar en un único escenario es Roberto Rossellini, el padre del Neorrealismo, convirtió a beneficioso para su espalda. Anna Magnani en la mujer desesperada de Cocteau en el inolvidable primer capítulo de la película “L’Amore”, donde No obstante Almodóvar adelantó que el próximo mes la actriz italiana, en todo su esplendor temperamental, empezará con la preproducción de su próxima película (se se buscaba y huía de sí misma dentro de un laberinto de espera que sea “Madres Paralelas”, aunque no lo especificó) espejos amenazantes. Por su parte, el Almodóvar de “The y para después tiene preparados dos nuevos proyectos de Human Voice” parece menos interesado en superponer corta duración que integrarían una especie de trilogía con capas y en fabricar espejismos que en observar de un modo “La Voz Humana”. Uno sería “un western muy particular” lo más transparente posible las emociones que le sirve en titulado “Extraña Forma de Vida”, como un fado de Amália bandeja de plata su nueva musa, Tilda Swinton. Rodrígues, mientras que el otro abordaría en forma de distopía el tema de las salas de cine, aunque no ofreció más Fiel a su estilo y su historia, Almodóvar invoca la vertiente detalles al ser interrumpido por su hermano Agustín. más lúdica del camp montando un fantástico pase de modelos unipersonal en el que Swinton viste de negro “Planteo una situación en la cual ya hace tiempo, sería una azabache, rojo pasión y azul cobalto, además de pasearse especie de distopía, que ocurre en una fiesta privada, en con un batín de estampados orientales. Podría parecer un que los cines han desaparecido de Madrid por ejemplo o de juego con la identidad múltiple del personaje, como ya España, que van camino de que desaparezcan”, indicó. Y hiciera Swinton en “Orlando” de Sally Potter. Pero nada más agregó: “Hablo de esa situación en forma distópica, cómo lejos de la realidad. “The Human Voice” pone en escena el afecta ese vacío de hace dos o tres años de las salas en las pacto inquebrantable que firman el cineasta y la actriz con personas que están compartiendo ese banquete”. el personaje de la mujer despechada. Como en ninguna versión anterior del texto, aquí la heroína de Cocteau “THE HUMAN VOICE” DE ALMODÓVAR O LA BELLEZA jamás pierde su entereza. El dolor puede afligirla, exponer DEL ARTIFICIO FÍLMICO Y EL GESTO ACTORAL su vulnerabilidad, pero jamás le quita la dignidad, esa (publicado por Manu Yáñez en Revista Fotogramas) incombustible fortaleza interior de la que siempre hace gala Swinton, una actriz empoderada como pocas, una mujer del El cortometraje “The Human Voice” (“La Voz Humana”) siglo XXI (como la Uma Thurman de “Kill Bill”, que aparece supone el primer trabajo de Pedro Almodóvar hablado en en una portada de DVD sobre la mesilla de comedor de la inglés; sin embargo, atendiendo a la naturalidad con la que la nueva heroína de Almodóvar). En “The Human Voice”, la actriz Tilda Swinton navega por los planos y los diálogos del tenacidad le sirve a Swinton para combatir el desconsuelo film, sería posible imaginar que el cineasta manchego siempre de su personaje, pero también para una cuestión de orden imaginó su cine hablado en la lengua de Shakespeare… y de más metaficcional: sobrellevar la soledad de la actriz que se Tennessee Williams, Scott Fitzgerald, John Cassavetes, Alice enfrenta a la cámara a pecho descubierto. Munro... El éxito de este tránsito idiomático invita a pensar en la fuerte filiación del director de “Hable Con Ella” con el En una apuesta sensacional, Almodóvar elimina de la mundo anglosajón, pero sobre todo hace aflorar la cualidad ecuación escénica el auricular de los viejos teléfonos fijos, universal de la aproximación almodovariana al lenguaje del que históricamente ha sido el elemento de atrezzo primordial cine y de las emociones humanas.
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