Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore Embrace Life, Death, Female Friendship in New Pedro Almodóvar Film

‘We very, very rarely get to hear a story about female friendship especially female friends who are of certain certain age,’ said Julianne Moore while raising a toast to ‘The Room Next Door’ director Pedro Almodóvar at Venice Film Festival. 
 
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore could have talked for hours, it appears, on the work of Pedro Almodóvar. 
 
The acclaimed director who made movies like the ‘Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, All About My Mother, Volver will present the debut feature shot in English at the 81 st Venice Film Festival entitled The Room Next Door. 
 
His film is an adaptation of a novel by Sigrid Nunez called What Are You Going Through; it focuses on the e relationships of best-selling writer named Ingrid Moore and her friend named Martha Swinton. Martha who is a terminal cervical cancer patient wants to die with dignity and when she gets an opportunity to take an assisted suicide pill she wants Ingrid to be in the next room . 
 
Swinton said this at the press conference of the movie during the Venice Film Festival on Monday afternoon She said “I’m personally not frightened of death and I have never been… This is something I know: We pause. And I think the whole journey towards accepting death can be long for some people but for some reason and with the experiences that I have had in my life, it came quite early… One of things that this film is a portrait of is self-determination; it is a woman who decides to take her life and her living and her dying into her own hands. 
 
‘It’s about a triumph, I think, this film,’ she went on. 
 
Moore knew that this film is also about love and friendship while highlighting the fact that people need to come to terms with the fact of death. She used the opportunity to celebration Almodóvar and also add her own experience regarding Swinton and female friendship, especially among women of certain age, which is not represented enough in movies. 
 
The star began: “And that is arguably part of the beauty of this film and the perspective that Pedro brings to this relationship – we predominantly discuss mother-daughter narratives, which are hardly innovative in literature and moving picture, do we not?, and while we can barely bookmark stories of female friendships, we hardly get to see such friendship between women of this age bracket… and I daresay, there can be no other filmmaker that would bring out such. ” 
 
She said further saying that how the characters of Martha and Ingrid has been depicted in Almodóvar’s film is very deep. “Of course, we have romantic relationships, familiar relationships Nevertheless, the importance of those cannot be overvalued I mean, they really, really are tremendous And the fact that he chose to portray this relationship, to bring it up on a higher level, to show us the love story that it is, I think, is truly extraordinary, and it felt special for me and Tilda. 
 
Swinton also lauded the 74-year-old’s directorial chops, explaining that a long time ago she told Almodóvar she would do anything to work with him: “That was during one of our encounters, and I told him, ‘Listen, I’ll learn Spanish for you. I don’t care. ’” 
 
“He has carried on being the master he continually tries to be there for this film To wretch the freshness, the rigor and the absolute discipline of him is admirable and I feel as though I am being the witness of his very first picture. ” 
 
Almodóvar was as generous with his good words for the two lead actresses. “They naturally grasped the kind of approach that I wanted to share this story, ” he said as he addressed the press conference. “I was really, really, very lucky because here are many subjects in this movie but the main thing in the movie is just to see the festival that they give Tilda and Julianne together … two wonderful actresses. ” 
 
The Room Next Door premieres in the Venice International Film Festival this Monday night and will have its U. S. premiere in the New York Film Festival as the centerpiece on October 4 of 2024.