(2024, Spain, 110')
The already strained relationship between Martha (Swinton) and her daughter shatters due to a misunderstanding that will permanently separate the two women. Ingrid (Moore), a bestselling author, witnesses this painful family feud. During a stay in a house surrounded by nature in New England, war reporter Martha and her friend Ingrid grow closer, while confronting their different approaches to reality and their writing about the infinite cruelty of war, death, and also friendship and sexual pleasure, which are their best allies in the fight against horror.
Pedro Almodóvar, winner of two Academy Awards, in 2000 for All About My Mother and in 2003 for Best Original Screenplay for Talk to Her, made his debut at Venice 45 in 1988 with what was his first major international success, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which received an Oscar nomination and a slew of awards worldwide. His subsequent successes include The Flower of My Secret (1995), Live Flesh (1997), Bad Education (2004), and The Skin I Live In (2011). He presented Pain and Glory at Cannes in 2019, the same year he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Lido. He returned to Venice in 2020 with the short film The Human Voice, also starring Tilda Swinton, and with Parallel Mothers in 2021. The Room Next Door is Almodóvar’s first film made entirely in English.
Focus on the American actress, protagonist at Venice 81 with "The room next door"
