The Room Next Door

Legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s English-language debut is a gorgeously appointed chamber drama starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

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

“It’s a lovely, mordant, tender affair; a lush September song in duet, performed with aplomb by Swinton and Moore as they stroll the secondhand bookstores or lounge by the pool they can’t be bothered to swim in.” ~Xan Brooks, The Guardian

“An alternately rapturous and ponderous meditation on mortality, though in a very Almodóvarian fashion, that exploration comes by way of a fantasy of set directing one’s own death, down to the moment, location, and outfit worn.” ~Alison Willmore, New York Magazine (Vulture)