Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star in Pedro Almodóvar's 25th feature film, 'The Room Next Door,' marking the Spanish filmmaker's first foray into English-language cinema.
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star in ' The Room Next Door ', director Pedro Almodóvar ’s 25th feature and first in the English language. The 75-year-old filmmaker has been working towards this for a few years, with 2020’s 'The Human Voice' and 2023’s '…' as brief forays into a language with which he isn’t entirely at ease. Tilda Swinton , who also starred in 'The Human Voice,' headlines ' The Room Next Door ' as Martha, a former war correspondent dying of cervical cancer.
She’s visited in the hospital by Ingrid (Julianne Moore), an old colleague from their heady, 1980s Paper magazine days. As the two rekindle their friendship, Martha approaches Ingrid with an unusual request. She’s not going back for another round of treatments, but nobody knows that yet. Martha has purchased a euthanasia pill “from the dark web” and intends to take it, but she doesn’t want to do it alone. She’s not asking Ingrid to watch her die, she just wants to know that there’s someone else there, in the room next door. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel 'What Are You Going Through,' Almodóvar’s screenplay is a much more muted affair than we’ve come to expect from the manic melodramatist. The bad boy provocateur’s films have grown increasingly genteel and reflective in recent years, with the director’s 2019 'The Pain and Glory' and 'Broken Embraces' showcasing a newfound maturity. The desire to go out on one’s own terms is what motivates Martha. She’s furious at people who describe her “battle” with cancer, as if a patient could somehow defeat an incurable disease if they only fought harder. Gaunt and losing her mental faculties from “chemo brain” — a horrifying fate for someone who made a career of putting thoughts into words — Martha can feel herself slipping away and wants to be done with it before the disease takes any more from her
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