Pedro Almodovar wants to get people back into movie theaters. Speaking at the Venice International Film Festival on Thursday, the Oscar-winning Spanish director made a passionate plea for audiences to return to cinemas or risk losing an essential aspect of human culture."The cinema is not going through the best period, but that is why we have to invite people to go to the cinema," Almodovar said, speaking through a translator at the press conference in Venice for his new short film, The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton.
Almodovar, a notorious hypochondriac, agreed to break his personal quarantine in Spain to attend the festival. His film, loosely based on the play by Jean Cocteau, follows Swinton, in what is essentially a 30-minute.
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