Starring Julianne Moore and Tilda SwintonThe film will premiere this month at the Venice Film Festival before traveling to the United States for its premiere at the New York Film Festival.
What is The Room Next Door about?
The Room Next Door follows Ingrid (Moore), a best-selling writer who rekindles a relationship with her friend Martha, a war journalist played by Swinton. The two women delve into their pasts, but Martha has a request that will test their newly strengthened bond. Also appearing John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola and Juan Diego Botto.
The film is described as an approach to the endless cruelty of war and the very different ways in which the two authors approach and write about reality, death, friendship and sexual pleasure as the best allies in the fight against horror.
A more detailed description says the film “evokes the sweet awakening to birdsong, in a house built in the middle of a nature reserve in New England, where the two friends live an extreme and strangely sweet situation.”
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired The Room Next Door for release in a number of key international markets, including the filmmaker’s home country of Spain. The studio also has a presence in the UK, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Poland), Latin America and parts of Asia-Pacific, including Japan.
Produced by El Deseo de Almodóvar, The Room Next Door was filmed between Madrid and New York. The film is Almodóvar’s first feature-length project since Parallel mothers of 2021, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where Penelope Cruz She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the film.
Source: Ambito
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