Review: The Human Voice (La voix humaine)

TW: Sui­cide Jean Cocteau wrote La Voix Humaine in 1928 as a one-act play.  Fran­cis Poulenc set it to music 30 years later, des­pite hav­ing already known Cocteau well for years, and gave the reas­on for the delay as hav­ing needed more life exper­i­ence to do it justice.  Dur­ing those years he struggled with depres­sion […]