Pedro Almodóvar's 'The Room Next Door' wins the Golden Lion at Venice 2024

The legendary Pedro Almodovar won the Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival with The Room Next Doora film that marks his debut with an English-language production.

The drama titled in our country as The room next dooris starring Tilda Swinton y Julianne Mooregiving life to two close friends distanced by work circumstances, who reunite when one of them is in a precarious life or death situation.

Other winners at Venice 2024 were Brady Corbetwho won the Silver Lion for best director for the historical drama, The Brutaliststarring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.

Nicole Kidman won best actress for Babygirlalthough he had to leave Venice due to the sudden death of his mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, at the age of 84. Vincent Lindon won best actor for The Quiet Son.

The projection of The room next door The feature film's world premiere was held in Venice, and it will subsequently tour the TIFF and NYFF festivals.

Almodóvar wrote the script adapting the book What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nuñez.

Filming took place in Madrid, although it depicts the lives of women in Manhattan and upstate New York.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:

“Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid became a writer of autofictional novels while Martha became a war reporter, and life circumstances separated them. After years of not having contact, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.”

The rest of the cast is made up of John Turturro (Severance, The Batman), Alessandro Nivola (Disobedience, Boston Strangler), Victoria Luengo (Riot police, Red Queen), Juan Diego Botto (Everybody Lies, The Suicide Squad), Raul Arevalo (The Asunta case), y Alex Hogh Andersen (Vikings, Granite Harbour).

Agustín Almodóvar produces the feature film, with Joshua Blum, Esther García, and Han West as executive producers.

Sony Pictures Classics will distribute The Room Next Door In select US theaters on December 25. In Mexico and the rest of Latin America it will be distributed by Warner Bros. in theaters starting October 18.