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AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kirpianuscus Long time after the end of film, zou feel it as an experience. because it is more than an admirable film. but one touching in profound sense. the performance of Sophia Loren is magnificent. as lot of her career. Edoardo Ponti gives a lovelz gift to his mother and that is not a surprise . but the gift is normal. as recognition of an admirable work. for a spectacular short film using the presence, the voice, the skils of an unique actress and few details for atmosphere. Sophia Loren. and her Angela.

Tom Burns It's impossible not to be captured by Sophia Loren's performance. She certainly retains her earthy beauty at the age of seventy-nine. And, although this movie is less than thirty minutes long, Ms. Loren is still able to perform a wide range of heartfelt emotions that draw in the viewer. At the end, one wishes this film were longer. Although I don't speak Italian, I love listening to this beautiful language, especially as spoken by the ultimate professional that is Ms. Loren. I also liked the "small" roles such as that of the maid. The maid was perfectly cast and her veal parmigiana looked delicious. Also, bravo to the director, Mr. Ponti. I highly recommend this film.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "La voce umana" or "The Human Voice" is a 25-minute Italian live action short film from last year. The director and writer is Swiss filmmaker Edoardo Ponti (husband to Sasha Alexander from NCIS) and he and Erri De Luca adapted a play by Jean Cocteau for this little movie. It is basically a one-woman show for Italian Academy Award winning actress Sophia Loren, in her 80s now. We follow her phone call to her significant other, in which he apparently is ending the relationship. We see and hear her suffer, we see and hear her be or pretend to be strong etc. I must say Loren was okay, but in terms of the story, I just wasn't impressed. Not even enough material for under 30 minutes in my opinion, which made this a fairly disappointing watch. if you still want to check it out, make sure you have subtitles unless you are fluent in Italian. But I don't recommend the watch.

onegreendress This 30-minute film directed by Sophia Loren's son is an intimate look into an hour (and five years) of a woman's life. The film, from a Jean Cocteau story, was made with both Anna Magnani in 1948 and with Ingrid Bergman in 1966, so Loren has two tough acts to follow. She does so with an exquisite portrayal of a woman with barely- controlled despair as she talks on the phone with her lover who is marrying another woman the next day.The drama takes place in the woman's bedroom, where she talks with her lover in phone calls repeatedly interrupted or cut off and then begun again. The collapse of her world and the emptiness entering her life are sharply contrasted with the meal her maid is making in the next room, a traditional parmigiana that Loren and her lover had shared each week. Thrown out of the routine of her five-year love affair, Loren sinks into depression as the routine of the meal that will not be eaten continues in the background. It's a stunning little film, and at 79-years-old, Loren is totally convincing as a woman who is probably supposed to be much younger in the film. Just like other signature Loren film portrayals--notably in Marriage Italian Style and Two Women, it is very hard to take one's eyes off of her--not just because she was beautiful but because she is an actress who can say so much with inflection, a turn of her chin, the movement of her hand.