‘La voz humana’, by Pedro Almodóvar, enters the pre-selection in the fiction of Oscar | Culture

The human voice, Pedro Almodóvar’s cortometers who adapted Jean Cocteau’s monologue with Tilda Swinton passed the first court on his truck to the Oscars. The Hollywood Academy acaba to announce its coasters, its first bribe in the new categories of the Oscars, so that the voters can be reduced to the lists of those who will run the nominations announced on March 15. In addition to the strong categories, the international pelicula, of 93 countries that send largometry, the institution has reduced it to 15 competitors. Y ahí están La llorona (Guatemala), This is no estoy water (Mexico) y The top agent (Chile), who had doubled over because he had also passed the court documentary. Quedan fuera la representative Spanish The infinite trinity, by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga, and the Colombian El olvido que seremos, by Fernando Trueba and Javier Cámara as protagonists.

Although Almodóvar announced that it will not compete in the Goya awards with the highest degree of fiction to consider that it is a separate pair of creators who initiate in the cinema, it has won the Oscars. In the final selection of this category entered two years ago Madre, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Curiously, this statue resists Spain: its vices have been leaked to the final quintet and never won. Now Almodóvar is among the 10 pre-selected and will have to wait until March 15 to find out if it will be the Spanish cinematographic octave that competes for this gallery.

Juan Daniel García Treviño (Ulysses), in the neoorquino periploo of ‘Ya no estoy aquí’. In the video, trailer of the movie.

As for the 15 best-in-class international films, there are three in Spanish: La llorona (Guatemala), by Jayro Bustamante, who moves between the social drama and the terror and with whom he closes the trilogy of insults; This is no estoy water (Mexico), by Fernando Frías, a narcotics and adolescent drama in Monterrey that moves to the rhythm of the cumbia rebate, and can be seen on Netflix, and in Chile The typical agent, by Maite Alberdi, a documentary with Spanish co-production that centers on an 80-year-old detective who enters an investigator’s home for senior citizens. In this episode passed the shortlist of favorites: Another round (Denmark), by Thomas Vinterberg, who appeared in the last awards of European cinema; Between us (France), by Filippo Meneghetti; the rumor Collective, by Alexander Nanau, who also appeared in the 15 documentary preselections. In this category we are also supported by a well-remembered festival and critique Charlatan (Czech Republic), by Agnieszka Holland; Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jasmila Zbanic; Night of the Kings (Costa de Marfil), by Philippe Lacôte; taiwanesa A Son, of Chung Mong-Hong, and Norway Hope, by Maria Sødahl.

Jayro Bustamante, in 2019 on the road to ‘La llorona’. In the video, trailer of the movie.

Along with a large documentary, international film and short of fiction, the rest of the categories he received this pre-selection are documentary, visual effects, animated short, make-up and punching, more sonorous and more action-packed La 93ª April 25 at the Dolby de Los Ángeles Theater.

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