Acclaimed author Ingrid (Julianne Moore) learns her old friend Martha (Tilda Swinton) - a successful war correspondent - has cancer. Ingrid visits Martha in hospital and the pair reestablish their dormant friendship. As they reflect on the past and learn more about each other, a dying Martha asks her friend for one final favour - to be in the room next to her when she takes her own life. It’s a request that tests their friendship and Martha’s emotional resolve.

Almodóvar has lost none of his trademark directorial flair in his first English language feature. With a tremendous pair of lead performances from Moore and Swinton, The Room Next Door is a compassionate, frank and darkly humorous study of end-of-life.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcp__Vek4gQ&t

Festivals:

Venice International Film Festival 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Awards:

Winner - Golden Lion, Best Film, Venice International Film Festival 2024

Reviews:

“The movie is all about death, yet in the unblinking honesty with which it confronts that subject, it’s powerfully on the side of life” - Owen Gleiberman, Variety

“The Room Next Door employs a light, intimate touch for its meditation on mortality, bolstered by tender yet calculated performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton” - Natalia Keogan, The AV Club

“★★★★ It’s a lovely, mordant, tender affair; a lush September song in duet, performed with aplomb by Swinton and Moore” - Xan Brooks, The Guardian