Hark and rejoice: the official trailer for Pedro Almodovar's latest film is finally available. Featuring a brooding Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, The Room Next Door was one of the most hotly anticipated entrants to appear at Venice Film Festival 2024. And after hungering for our next Almodovar fix, the wait is finally over: Sony Pictures Classics has officially dropped a trailer for the film.
The Room Next Door is Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, and is a follow-up to 2021’s Parallel Mothers, which also screened at Venice and secured the festival’s best actress Volpi Cup for Penelope Cruz’s performance. Interest piqued? Everything you need to know about the movie, below.
See the official trailer for The Room Next Door
What is The Room Next Door about?
The Room Next Door follows the lives of Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), who were close friends in their youth when they worked at the same magazine (oh, the fruits we reap and know so well). Martha takes the cast of a flawed mother working as a war reporter. Where Ingrid opted to start a novelist's career in autofiction, their lives intersect again in an absurdly sweet moment. The trailer tells us as much: the two women cohabit a home, with Ingrid taking the role of Martha's carer. In one shot, she attends to a deathly pale Martha in a hospital bed. In another, Martha is puckering up to paint her lips coral red. The rest is up to our speculation, and knowing Almodovar, it could be anyone's game.
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When will The Room Next Door be released to the public?
The Room Next Door will drop in theatres on December 20, 2024.
