Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar returns to the Venice Film Festival to premiere “D the room next the door” with Tilda Tara Swinton y Julian Moore Like his new muse.
While a new Almodóvar film is always an event for film buffs, It has a special meaning, as it is his first feature film in English..
“After the first table read with the actresses, my insecurities disappeared as soon as I exchanged the first instructions,” said the director.
In the film, Moore and Swinton play friends who become disconnected and take different paths after meeting while working at a magazine in their youth. “Ingrid” (Moore) writes novels and “Martha” (Swinton) is a war reporter.
Years later, they meet again in New York, when “Ingrid” discovers that “Martha” has cancer and is in a hospital.
Over the next few weeks and months, they reconnected, updating each other about each other’s lives and their estranged daughter.martha“ Through a series of revealing conversations.
Before the film’s release, Swinton said it never occurred to her that Almodovar would eventually find a place for her in one of his films. He said he has revered it since seeing “women on the verge of a nervous breakdown” in London in the late 1980s. Almodovar had a similar artistic spirit, he thought.
The idea of collaboration seemed like a fantasy. Then one day, she said, she dared him to say something. “I told him, ‘Listen, I’ll learn Spanish for you, and you can mute him,'” Swinton said. “In his own way, he laughed.” Moore added: “I don’t know how I got into this world, but I feel lucky that he chose me.”
Its last appearance Almodovar It was in Venice in 2021, where he presented the film “Parallel Mothers”, for which Penelope Cruise won the Best Actress award.
Both Swinton and Moore were excited to star in a film that highlights a friendship between two women their age. “Very, very rarely do we see stories of female friendship and especially stories of older friends,” Moore said. “The importance that he shows us is so extraordinary and it was so moving to me that he portrayed this relationship as something so deep, because it is.”
The film competed for the Golden LionThe festival’s top prize, which will be awarded on September 7.
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