What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 7-9
Including Almodovar s English-language debut, Eat Wheaties! and season 3 of The Girlfriend Experience By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie
May 7, 2021
The Human Voice
(Pedro Almodóvar)
Spanish director Almodóvar’s English-language debut is a short film that strips the hallmarks of his oeuvre down to a few core elements: a high-strung woman engages in high drama while clad in high fashion. Based on Jean Cocteau’s monodrama of the same name, The Human Voice is essentially a 30-minute showpiece for Tilda Swinton, who stars as a jilted woman confronting her ex in a lengthy phone call as her oblivious dog unhelpfully reflects back her anxiety. Cocteau’s play served as the inspiration for Almodóvar’s 1988 international hit Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown so not unlike 2019’s Pain And Glory, this project finds the director self-consciously revisiting the late 80s/early 90s period that defined his suc
Opting to go topless beneath a sheer plastic coat, Maisie Williams was the double of edgy punk model Pamela Rooke while riding a bike on the Dover seafront in Kent.
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The thespian rounded off his appearance with chunky footwear while shielding himself from the rain under an umbrella.
Rising star Anson s leading role in the programme can potentially earn him worldwide recognition, after starring in 1917, Crawl and Blackbird.
In good company: Toby Wallace (second from left), Christian Lees (pictured centre), and Jacob Slater (pictured far right) were also seen in Folkestone
The real rockers: Sex Pistols consisted of Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock (the band L-R minus Glen Matlock pictured in 1978)
Wow: Anson, pictured left in character, and Johnny Rotten, pictured right, in 1976
Shooting for Danny Boyle s new Sex Pistols drama is well underway.
And the actor who is playing tragic punk Sid Vicious - Louis Partridge - in the six-part series was a dead ringer for the rocker as he appeared on set on Wednesday.
The actor, 17, was filming opposite Sid s lover Nancy Spungen [Emma Appleton], who was found stabbed to death in a New York hotel where she was staying with Sid.
Vicious! The actor who is playing tragic punk Sid Vicious - Louis Partridge - in the six-part series was a dead ringer for the rocker as he appeared on set on Wednesday (Sid Vicious pictured right in the late 1970s)
Fuming over the Danny Boyle-directed six-part TV series, the frontman of the punk rock band dubs the recently-released publicity pictures of Anson Boon, who will depict him, most disrespectful .