Even after this ended I still have so many questions…this was very interesting and kept me on my toes for all 30 mins. This was a short that actually worked for me as a short. It was beautifulllyyyyy shot and well done across the eerie score, emotional ups and downs, impressively long monologue, and Tilda’s performance. 

YES! I needed that Almodóvar snack right now!

The acting is great.

The Whining would be a more honest title. I could only take ~15min of this actor's étude, set in a single building with a single (human) actor. I don't believe this is something a general audience could enjoy, despite admittedly great acting.

This film has a Wes Anderson sense of visuals, brilliant music and a finite tight script. The camera work creates a sense of suspense with slow zooms and unsettling symmetry. Every beat of the film is perfectly crafted and colors warm and warn you of the coming danger. Wrap up your ax and get ready for a first rate film.

Bad movie, worst acting..

This is a short 'film' (half an hour long) which is the director's English language debut. Tilda Swinton gives a good performance as the unnamed main character, the lady who we hear discussing things via a phone call in which we can't hear the other person. It's very much an example of showing things from the one persons perspective. It shows Tilda's acting range quite well - it almost surprised me how strongly emotional she becomes, given her composure at the start. Its a curious character based short film - as ever in Almodovar's films, colour plays a particular role in this title. I couldn't not notice the brightish colours present in Tilda's costumes, the home furnishings and so on. This is a slightly quirky and perhaps curious watch, not a bad one, a thoughtful film somewhat that does touch on suicide, so if suicide or self harm triggers you, then your best avoiding this but otherwise I'd recommend it, yes.

The colours, the composition - absolutelly brilliant. Tilda is so passionate, almost mad. Really powerful.

I'm amazed by how this movie shows stages of grief. Also this film shows why Tidla Swinton is in my opinion one of the best actresses. Wow. I love it.

Pretentious and boring. Just another one of those art house movies that thinks that promises much but delivers little. Not impressed by Tilda Swinton's acting in this either.

Beautiful from the costumes to the assembly work, besides it has an interesting monologue. I wish I had seen the work in a long film.

One thing I noticed, and adored, about Almodóvar, is that despite his unequivocal propensity for incorporating comedy with melodrama, there's no way his films could come across as either silly or overly sentimental. For his stories are laced with considerable nuance. His Women on the Verge on a Nervous Breakdown, which is also based on Jean Cocteau's play, "La voix humaine" as this short is, maintains an incremental humorous tone so much so it could be adequately described, by its end, as a farce. Yet, as we see Pepa trying to figure out why her lover dumped her without an explanation, Almodóvar delves into Pepa's psyche with great subtlety that's apt for her precarious state. That's why I thought The Human Voice would benefit greatly from the concentrated nature of short films. Our unnamed protagonist's wait for three days for her lover to come in a last chance to see him has filled her with rage. A vindictive rage almost identical to that of The Bride in Kill Bill, but she still loves him. So she acts out like a maniac: stabbing one of her lover's suits with an axe in a harmless cathartic release. She wouldn't dare to actually hurt him; she still loves him. Therefore, she's so vulnerable. Over the course of her conversation with his lover, her seemingly stable and wry demeanour gradually crumbles, exposing both her helplessness and her futile undirected rage. Almodóvar brilliantly highlights such contradiction and lays her feelings bare by showing the soundstage her exuberantly furnished, sumptuously coloured apartment is constructed upon. As she grows more desperate, she begins to lose control. Finally, she decides to free herself from the submissive woman she's always been, and put an end to their toxic relationship — after all, her love made her too fragile and delicate to venture to turn the tables on him as Alma did on Reynolds in Phantom Thread. The thing is, I didn't feel that she loves him. What's baffling is that I can't put my finger on why exactly I feel so, but it's likely due to the stagy feel this film has. It is a showcase of Tilda Swinton's thespian prowess, but, at times, her monologue comes off rather like a soliloquy — like there's no one on the other side of the phone line. Regardless, The Human Voice is an eye-popping, exquisitely-made feminist work with witty sarcastic undertones.

This was quite captivating, I didn't know what to expect but I trusted the duo; Tilda Swinton & Almadovar. Brilliant monologue, it was like watching a whole relationship and witnessing the end with all the humane emotions.

i like Tilda, but this was boring.