The Room Next Door, English W. Subtitles

The legendary Spanish director has taken his signature style to the US for this "sweetly heartfelt reflection on ageing and dying" featuring two knockout performances.

After four-and-a-half decades of making rapturously acclaimed Spanish-language films, Pedro Almodóvar has written and directed his first ever feature-length film in English. And he could hardly have chosen two better actors to be in it. Adapted from a novel by Sigrid Nunez, The Room Next Door stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, both of whom are dazzling, even by their own brilliant standards.

Their characters are Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), two old friends who were magazine journalists in New York in the Protected content . Ingrid has gone on to be an author, her latest novel being about her fear of death, while Martha has had a long career as a daredevil war reporter. They lost touch a few years earlier, but when Ingrid hears that Martha is being treated for cervical cancer in a Manhattan hospital, she rushes to her bedside, and they are soon as close as ever. They become so close, in fact, that the alarmingly pale and skeletal Martha asks Ingrid to do her a monumental favour. She has found a euthanasia pill on the dark web, but she doesn't want to be alone when she takes it. She wants Ingrid to be in the room next door.

Let's meet in downstairs foyer to sort out tickets and snacks, film starts at 18h15

See you at the movies!

Marion