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Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ Earns Mega 18-Minute Ovation At Venice Film Festival
edro Almodóvar unveiled his latest feature, and his first in English, The Room Next Door, here at the Venice Film Festival this evening, receiving an 18-minute, 36-second ovation.
Earlier today, he told the Venice press corps he’d decided to make a film in English “To start a new era.” But, he “needed to have the right vehicle to do it.” He found that “in the middle of the pages of the book.” Language ultimately was “not a problem” because both Swinton and Moore “understood exactly the tone I wanted to tell the story,” Almodovar said, calling the duo “a festival of two wonderful actresses.” Almodóvar’s frequent collaborators at Sony Pictures Classics have rights in North America, the Middle East, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. This is Almodóvar’s first feature-length project since 2021’s Parallel Mothers, which debuted in Venice where Penelope Cruz won the Best Actress Volpi Cup for her role in the film.
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