Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” Wins Golden Lion at Venice
Sep 11, 2024
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, wins the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 81st Venice International Film Festival!
This is Almodóvar’s first US production and first English-language feature film and WSF’s Joshua Blum & Han West served as Executive Producers in New York. Washington Square Films served as the NY production company.
The Room Next Door follows the story of a very imperfect mother and a spiteful daughter separated by a serious misunderstanding. Between them, another woman, Ingrid (Julianne Moore), the mother’s friend, is the keeper of their pain and bitterness. Martha, the mother (played by Tilda Swinton), is a war reporter and Ingrid an auto-fictional novelist. The film addresses the endless cruelty of war, the very different ways in which the two female authors approach and write about reality, death, friendship, and sexual pleasure as the best allies in the fight against horror.
The film is scheduled to open theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles on December 20, 2024, followed by a limited release in select US cities on Christmas Day, and a January 2025 wide US release.
Read more here!
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