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The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 66
Released: 2020-11-01
Running Time: 47 Minutes
Studios: City Opera Vancouver,
The Human Voice is a contemporary adaptation of the 1928 stage play by Jean Cocteau, and "La Voix Humaine," the 1958 chamber opera by Francis Poulenc. In a radically new production The Human Voice presents a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. Now in English, Isaiah Bell sings to his male lover, and into the abyss of COVID. In a Zoom call impaired by lag and freeze and dropped signals, technology is once again enemy to intimacy. The agony of failed love is heightened by the necessity of distance, by the anaesthetic of the machine.