Starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodóvar directs his English-language feature debut with the 2024 winner of the Venice Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion.

Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Anchored by a pair of terrific performances swathed in vivid colours, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR attests to Almodóvar’s universal fluency in provocative filmmaking.