‘The Room Next Door’ review: Manifestation of sweeping melodrama

Manager: Pedro Almodovar

Artists: Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro

premiere: 10/18/2024

Punctuation: ★★★★

There are filmmakers who differ in style and scale when they shoot in another country and in another language. almodovar debuts in long format With ‘The room next door’ in English. In feature film format, as she has previously made two short films in English, one of which is literally with one of the two actresses in ‘The Room Next Door’, Tilda Swinton.

It was a brave filming of the unforgettable monologue on that occasion. Jean Cocteau ‘Human voice’. in this A story in two voices, extremely beautiful Despite what is said, the closeness of death, its acceptance and the gesture of helping to die calmly and peacefully. Despite what? Perhaps death is serene, if not beautiful, when there is no remedy, when nothing can be done to avoid it. This is what ‘The Room Next Door’ is talking about, among other things. It’s also about the rise of the far right and the environmental crisis, but these are secondary themes, like historical memory in ‘Parallel Mothers’.

Almodóvar constructed the film with his own personality while shooting the locations and the relationships between the heroes. His reference area is very wide and here we understand how much he loves women’s TV series. George Cukor And Ingmar BergmanAs well as the movie ‘I will always love you’ Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman The art of painting at the basis of modern cinema Edward Hopper and melodramas Douglas Circus. julianne moore In 2002, he starred in the big melodrama ‘Far From Heaven’, which refers to Sirk, and Sirk makes many references to Hopper’s canvases. Thus, Moore, the best actor of his generation, joins the Almodóvar universe with tremendous naturalness.

Moore-Swinton, together and separately, are a marvel in a magnificent film. full of images of enlightenment: The shot of the two of them in the hospital, watching the pink snow fall on the city – reminiscent of Sirk’s ‘Only Heaven Knows’ – or the shot of Moore looking into Swinton’s room, knowing she’ll want to say it when the door closes. Your friend decided to take his own life. He looks three times and the door is open. Moore’s expression of peace is worth a movie.

Because ‘The Room Next Door’ moves in this delicate tessitura. Swinton has terminal cancer. He was promised an experimental treatment. The prospect of recovery excited him. But the treatment didn’t work. How do you accept death when you think you’re avoiding it? And now he asks his friend to be in the next room while he takes the last pill. The second part, in the house in the forest, between Thoreau’s philosophy and Hopper’s light, is admirable.

Source: Informacion

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