When Pedro Almodovar makes his comment on the pandemic and the lockdown, he does it in the artistically exaggerated form that is typical for him, and rarely has an actress fit better than Tilda Swinton, the protagonist from the 30-minute “The Human Voice”, an adaptation of the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau. Swinton is isolated in the apartment she once shared with her lover and can suffer from all kinds of emotional and emotional states that fit perfectly with Corona time – by the way, Almodovar’s intelligent time commentary is the first collaboration with Swinton, and that is almost astonishing the perfectly fitting overlay of the talents of these two artists.
In Venice, Almodovar also commented on the lockdown. “To give all of my films to the streaming portals would be bad, because I would lose direct contact with the audience there,” said Almodovar. “I can only feel in a cinema in which unknown people experience a film together, whether it works or not and how the audience reacts to it,” says Almodovar. “The cinema is the real antidote to the pandemic”. What a sentence. And further: “People shouldn’t have to sit in their home as if it were a prison”.
Almodovar has since left this prison because the 71-year-old is very busy and has several new projects at the start, of which he says: “The cinema is an adventure and I am ready to dare to do it again”. Among other things, Almodovar wants to shoot a western next. “But rest assured: it will definitely not be a normal western”. We take his word for it.
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