Italian
Awarded at the 81st Venice Film Festival where he won the Golden Lion for Best Film, it consecrates Pedro Almodóvar in all his full maturity
A witty and raw story, which tells of two great friends Martha and Ingrid who reunite after many years, with Martha asking her long-lost friend to assist her all the way through a crucial test, to accompany her in assisted suicide as she is terminally ill.
Tilda Swinton, masterful and absolute in the role of the woman suffering from a tumor, and Julianne Moore portraying the perfect friend, constitute the backbone of an extremely painful story filled with great emotions, silences, and an absolute pursuit of life. Pedro Almodóvar, with intimacy and delicacy, manages to sway the film without ever completely unseating it. Bold and fearless in addressing a very current theme, keeping just enough “artistic distance.” Without ever disturbing or offending sensitivities.
A real winding and reflective path that has to peek between past and present, but also thinking about the future, when life will inevitably leave its place.
The room next door is open but when it closes it will be forever, and it is through this that the director finds the true anvil to shake the plot , affirming dignity and respect for a life where courage and moderation are true protagonists.
The director, at his first feature film in English, gives his aficionados, but not only them, a story that renews never tamed questions, which will shake all consciences. With the authority of someone who does not want to impose their ideas, but only arouse that small great intense clamor that cinema has always loved to propose.
Foto di: La Biennale Venezia
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