La voce umana

A free interpretation of the monologue by Jean Cocteau, La voix humaine. An actress goes to the theater shortly before the beginning of the play she stars in. As she prepares to go onstage and is putting on her makeup and costume, she talks by cell phone with the man she loves and with whom she recently broke off a five-year-long relationship. The woman alternates moments in which she tries to hide her deep suffering with others in which she confesses her pain to the man, even revealing that she had made a clumsy attempt at suicide the evening before. The show begins, she goes onstage, picks up a pistol, aims it at her temple and fires. But maybe it’s just a theatrical gesture.

“The idea was to move the monologue from the bedroom, where the play is traditionally set, to a theater, where a variety show actress alternates irony and pain in a metaphorical game balanced between fiction and reality.”

regia/director Pappi Corsicato
soggetto/screenplay dall’omonima opera teatrale di/from the homonymous play by Jean Cocteau
fotografia/director of photography Cesare Accetta
costumi/costume design Giusy Giustino
montaggio/film editor Davide Franco
suono/sound Brando Mosca, Alberto Padoan
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Elena Bucci (l’attrice/actress), Marialuisa Nicotera (la donna con i melograni in testa/woman with pomegranates above her head), Luciana Berti, Clelia Borino, Alessandra Itro, Annalaura Maio, Ilaria Mandato, Emanuela Mauriello (le ballerine/dancers)
produttore/producer Nicola Giuliano
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Indigo Film