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Pedro Almodóvar prepares a short film, adaptation of the monologue 'The human voice' by Jean Cocteau , for the first time in English, with actress Tilda Swinton as the protagonist, according to EFE sources confirmed by the producer El Deseo.

Despite not having won any of the awards to which 'Pain and Glory' aspired in the Oscars, the Manchego film director brings from Los Angeles a project that he had previously caressed, a version of Jean's famous dramatic monologue Cocteau, this time with short film format.

In addition to filming for the first time in English, he will do so with an actress in which he had already shown interest, the chameleon Tilda Swinton , winner of an Oscar as a secondary in "Michael Clyton" (2007). Filming could be as imminent as for next April.

Almodóvar had already versioned very freely that monologue in which a woman suffers the abandonment of her love in a phone call in "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown".

In addition to revealing these plans to The New York Times on the Oscars red carpet, Almodóvar also announced that after filming the short film he intends to make a feature film, also with Swinton, about the book of stories `` Women's Handbook of the cleaning ', by Lucia Berlin.

The film would be his first Anglo-Saxon adventure to, after he refused to direct 'Sister Act' in the nineties and his first intention, which also did not come to fruition, that Meryl Streep played 'Juliet', before it was decided to finally shoot her in Spanish with Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte sharing the two ages of the protagonist.

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