Pedro Almodóvar's 'The Human Voice' Premieres at Venice Film Festival

At the 77th Venice International Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar presented his short film 'The Human Voice', starring Tilda Swinton, as an out-of-competition event. The 30-minute piece is based on Jean Cocteau's play of the same name, which previously inspired Almodóvar's 'Law of Desire'. Swinton plays a woman waiting for a phone call from her lover after a breakup; the other voice is never heard. Almodóvar described the work as a liberating experiment blending theatricality and cinema. Swinton received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the festival. The article also details Swinton's art-world connections: in 1995 she performed in a Cornelia Parker piece in Rome and London, lying in a glass case for eight hours daily, and reprised it unannounced at MoMA in 2013. She recently curated a photography exhibition for Aperture on themes of Orlando and gender fluidity. Swinton lives in Inverness, Scotland, with her twins, their father John Byrne, and her partner Sandro Kopp.