The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival
From left to right … Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodóvar and Julianne Moore attend the photocall for The Room Next Door at the Venice film festival.From left to right … Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodóvar and Julianne Moore attend the photocall for The Room Next Door at the Venice film festival.
Spain legalised euthanasia in 2021 and is one of only 11 countries in which any form of assisted dying is legal. In the UK, assisted suicide is punishable by up to 14 years’ imprisonment, while euthanasia is regarded as either manslaughter or murder. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment. “We have to stop this denying of the danger,” said Almodóvar, “that the planet is in danger. Climate change is not something neglectable ; we have to pay greater attention.”Swinton, who previously worked with Almodóvar on 40-minute lockdown short The Human Voice said she was unafraid of her own mortality.
“It’s about a triumph, I think, this film,” she continued, adding that she also has “faith in the inevitability of evolution, wherever it takes us”. In the film, Moore’s character becomes a proxy for Swinton’s character’s late mother, and the mother-daughter relationship, said Swinton, was a “journey, an adventure that’s always going to sustain us”.
This was corrected after she first set foot in his apartment and “saw all of his movies come alive right there! ‘Oh my God, it’s all here!’ It just vibrated with life and humanity.” Swinton recalled gingerly approaching the director at a party and suggesting they work together. “I’ll learn Spanish for you,” she remembered telling him. “I’ll play a mute for you – I don’t care.
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