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Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is like a knock-off designer bag that’s just about convincing

2/5 Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore are unsurprisingly excellent, but even they seem to be struggling to navigate such a didactic script

The Independent UK

Pedro Almodóvar among Spanish stars urging PM to ban arms trade with Israel

Letter signed by more than 250 cultural figures calls for comprehensive arms embargo and ‘an end to this horror’

The Guardian - UK

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton give luxuriously self-aware performances as two old friends who are reunited in a doggedly mysterious drama

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Award-winning bullfighting documentary likely to anger aficionados and abolitionists alike

Every year the Spanish ministry of culture awards prizes for different artistic disciplines. From next year onwards, the country’s national bullfighting award will be withdrawn. The current Spanish minister of culture, the Barcelona-born Green politician Ernest Urtasun, supports the prohibition of what has long been known as Spain’s “national fiesta”.

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‘I need to feel alive’: Julianne Moore on family, friendship and mortality

Few actors are as endlessly versatile and compelling as Julianne Moore. Ahead of her extraordinary performance in the latest Pedro Almodóvar film, she opens up about love, death and the complexity and richness of ordinary lives

The Guardian - UK

The Room Next Door review: "Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore excel in this haunting drama"

Total Film

Tilda Swinton explores assisted suicide in Pedro Almodovar’s 'The Room Next Door'

Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton says it’s in the director’s inimitable style

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Brutalism in film: the beautiful house that forms the backdrop to The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door's production designer discusses mood-boarding and scene-setting for a moving film about friendship, fragility and the final curtain

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From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

With most of the year’s awards-aiming films now premiered at fests, potential nominees are starting to fall into place

The Guardian - US

Almodóvar's 'The Room Next Door' Wins Venice Golden Lion

Discover the highlights of the 81st Venice Film Festival, featuring award-winning films and star-studded red carpet moments.

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Pedro Almodóvar Wins Golden Lion at 2024 Venice Film Festival for "The Room Next Door"

The Venice Film Festival gave Pedro Almodóvar his first Golden Lion for "The Room Next Door", his first film in English.

Latin Times

Venice 2024: Almodóvar’s first major festival win is richly deserved – and epically overdue

At 74, Spain’s finest director has won the Golden Lion – incredibly, his first major victory at a film festival – for his debut English language feature. Better late than never, even if The Room Next Door isn’t quite his finest work

The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival 2024 roundup – Nicole Kidman gets carnal and Lady Gaga goes crazy

In a festival rich in impressive female leads, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton bonding for Almodóvar, while a strong documentary lineup ranges from Trump to Yoko Ono

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

The Spanish film-maker on the raw, real life experiences behind his first collection of short stories – and why his mother is his inspiration

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The Independent UK

London Film Festival 2024 line-up announced with Nightbitch, Anora, Conclave and many more set to screen

New films by Steve McQueen, Marielle Heller and Andrea Arnold will also screen

The Guardian - UK

Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

The Venice premiere of Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door received 17 minutes of applause – has touting the length of clapping has become just another PR tool?

Evening Standard

The Room Next Door at Venice Film Festival review: understated and lovely

Almodóvar’s first English-language film features sumptuous colours, humour and some killer dialogue

The Independent UK

New Pedro Almodóvar film, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, receives 17 minute ovation at Venice

The film sees Moore and Swinton play old friends who reconnect when one learns she is dealing with a terminal illness

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Pedro Almodóvar says euthanasia should be available ‘all over the world’

Almodóvar’s first English-language film ‘The Room Next Door’ deals with a woman facing her mortality

The Guardian - UK

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar spins a gorgeous, fragile tale of life and death

The Spanish director’s first English-language feature sees Tilda Swinton’s dying journalist trying to reconnect with an old friend played by Julianne Moore

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’

The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival

The Independent UK

Watch: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore arrive at Venice Film Festival

Watch as Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore were among the stars arriving at the Venice Film Festival on Monday (2 September).

The Independent UK

Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore attend Venice Film Festival with Almodóvar film

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns to the Venice Film Festival with stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore on Monday

Latin Times

Venice Film Festival goes Latin with Jenna Ortega, Cuarón, Almodóvar and more stars

The 81st Venice Film Festival is spotlighting Latino and Spanish filmmakers and actors, showcasing a diverse lineup

The Independent UK

Venice Film Festival: From ‘Joker 2’ to ‘Queer,’ here are 10 movies to get excited about

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are getting ready to descend on the Venice Film Festival this week, from George Clooney and Angelina Jolie to Lady Gaga, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix

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