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Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Spanish director’s first English-language movie starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore tackles euthanasia
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language movie The Room Next Door, which tackles the hefty themes of euthanasia and the climate crisis, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival on Saturday. Australia’s Nicole Kidman won the best actress award for her risque role in the erotic Babygirl, where she plays a hard-nosed CEO, who jeopardises her career and her family by having a toxic affair with a young, manipulative intern. The best director award went to American film-maker Brady Corbet for his three-and-a-half-hour-long movie The Brutalist, the epic tale of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor played by Adrien Brody, who seeks to rebuild his life in the US.
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