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Pedro Almodóvar

The Room Next Door

Director Pedro Almodóvar Composer Alberto Iglesias Cast Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro
Edition 2024
110' - 2024 - Drama - Format: DCP - Dialogue: English
Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language debut with The Room Next Door, an intense exploration of mortality and friendship featuring the dream duo of Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. The director of Oscar-winners Todo sobre mi madre and Hable con ella recently won the Golden Lion for the film, his first top prize at a major film festival.
In The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar ventures into English-language cinema for the first time, presenting a poignant drama that transcends linguistic barriers. The film centers on Martha (Tilda Swinton), a former war correspondent facing terminal cervical cancer. In her final months, she reaches out to Ingrid (Julianne Moore), an old colleague from her reporting days. What ensues is a melancholic reunion set in a sleek, modernist New York home, where the two women navigate the complex terrains of friendship, loss, and reconciliation. Despite the film's somber premise, Almodóvar's English-language debut vibrates with vitality and resilience. This is not only due to Swinton and Moore’s formidable natural talent but also to cinematographer Eduard Grau’s ability to capture both vulnerability and splendor in his emotionally charged frames. In this meditation on death - and more profoundly, on the strength of life - Almodóvar has crafted a masterpiece that earned him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

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Credits

Directors

Pedro Almodóvar

Composers

Alberto Iglesias

Cast

Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro

Scenario

Pedro Almodóvar

Director of Photography

Eduard Grau

Editors

Teresa Font

Producers

Agustin Almodóvar

Production studios

El Deseo

Distributor

Alternative Films S.A.

More info

Dialogue

English

Countries of production

Spain

Screenplay based on

"What Are You Going Through" (Sigrid Nunez )

Year

2024

Filmography

Pedro Almodóvar
Film político (short, 1974), Dos putas, o historia de amor que termina en boda (short, 1974), La caída de Sódoma (short, 1975), Homenaje (short, 1975), El sueño, o la estrella (short, 1975), Blancor (short, 1975), Tráiler de 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' (short, 1976), Sea caritativo (short, 1976), Muerte en la carretera (short, 1976), Sexo va, sexo viene (short, 1977) Las tres ventajas de onte (short, 1977), Complementos (short, 1977), Salomé (short, 1978), Folle... folle... fólleme Tim! (1978) Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980), Labyrinth of Passion (1982), Dark Habits (1983), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), High Heels (1991), Kika (1993), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Talk to Her (2002), Bad Education (2004), Volver (2006), The Cannibalistic Councillor (short, 2009), Broken Embraces (2009), The Skin I Live In (2011), I'm so Excited (2013), Julieta (2016), Pain and Glory (2019), The Human Voice (short, 2020), Parallel Mothers (2021), Strange Way of Life (short, 2023), The Room Next Door (2024)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP