At 74, Spain’s finest director has won the Golden Lion – incredibly, his first major victory at a film festival – for his debut English language feature. Better late than never, even if The Room Next Door isn’t quite his finest work
At 74, Spain’s finest director has won the Golden Lion – incredibly, his first major victory at a film festival – for his debut English language feature. Better late than never, even if The Room Next Door isn’tPedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is a tender, heartfelt drama about a driven former war correspondent who’s in search of the perfect final scene. She wants an ending that she can script and control, and a handpicked loving audience to applaud her when she goes.
One might assume that Almodóvar has a habit of hoovering up the big festival prizes. The 74-year-old director has been a mainstay of world cinema for the past four decades, feted and adored, almost an industry in himself.Incredibly, though, The Room Next Door - his 23rd feature yet his English-language debut - marks the man’s first big festival triumph.
The Room Next Door is a film about a death. But it is also an Almodovar film, which de-facto, unavoidably, makes it a film about life. It’s rich and colourful. It’s spiky and eccentric. Even when he’s staring death in the face, Almodóvar can’t resist making a joke, or sparking a quarrel, or admiring the colour of the sun loungers by the pool.
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