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It’ll be hard for the Academy to resist “Sentimental Value.”

After finishing as runner-up to the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and now, making a quietly rapturous North American debut at Telluride, Joachim Trier’s Norwegian drama “Sentimental Value” is shaping up to be a formidable player in this year’s international Oscar race — and with the added potential to crack into all the top categories including best picture.

A tender yet unsparing exploration of generational trauma, creative legacy and emotional inheritance, “Sentimental Value” from Neon marks Trier’s return following his Oscar-nominated triumph “The Worst Person in the World” (2021), which landed him an original screenplay nomination. Co-written once again with longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, the Norwegian auteur’s latest project reunites him with Renate Reinsve, the breakout star of “The Worst Person in the World,” and introduces a powerhouse ensemble including Elle Fanning,...

Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas, continuing their long run with the Oscar winner.

The movie follows Elsa, an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realizing, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence. After a moment of crisis, Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia. The story of these characters run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.

The pic, which just wrapped production, is produced by Almodóvar’s longtime producer, Agustín Almodóvar.

Sony Pictures Classics released Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film last year, The Room Next Door, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival; the short film Strange Way of Life; and Oscar-nominated...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to “Bitter Christmas,” written and directed by frequent collaborator Pedro Almodóvar and produced by Almodóvar’s longtime producer, his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, the studio announced on Tuesday.

“Bitter Christmas” follows Elsa, an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realizing, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence. After a moment of crisis, Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia. The story of these characters run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked,...

El director manchego regresa al castellano tras el León de Oro de ‘La Habitación de al Lado’. © Warner Bros

Tras el estreno de La habitación de al lado, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés –que le valió el codiciado León de Oro en Venecia–, Pedro Almodóvar regresa a casa con Amarga Navidad, su nueva película en castellano, que ha concluido su rodaje el pasado día 12 de agosto en la isla canaria de Lanzarote.

En Amarga Navidad, Elsa es una directora de publicidad cuya madre muere durante un largo puente del mes de diciembre. Encuentra refugio en el trabajo, aunque es más bien una huida hacia adelante. Trabaja sin parar y, sin darse cuenta, no se da tiempo suficiente para guardar el duelo por la ausencia materna. Hasta que una crisis de pánico la obliga a parar y tomarse un descanso. Su pareja, Bonifacio, es su salvavidas en esos momentos de crisis.

La Zinemaldia reconocerá también a la productora Esther García con el Premio Donostia. © Ssiff

El Festival de San Sebastián rinde tributo a Marisa Paredes, cuyo rostro –etéreo y eterno– preside el cartel de su 73ª edición, que tendrá lugar del 19 al 27 de septiembre.

Figura insigne y querida del certamen desde su debut en 1977 hasta su fallecimiento el pasado año, Paredes vuelve a ser la imagen oficial gracias a una fotografía de Manuel Outumuro tomada en 2000 y delicadamente reinterpretada por el estudio Wallijai. Ya en 2006 ya fue la protagonista del cartel, caracterizada como Rita Hayworth en La dama de Shanghai, el clásico de Orson Welles.

El estudio Wallijai asimismo firma los carteles de las distintas secciones, que combinan fotografía e ilustración para transmitir la idea de que todas y todos llevamos distintas películas en nuestro interior. Para ello, cada póster incluye referencias más o menos expresas a diferentes géneros: drama (New...

El drama hospitalario español de Netflix vuelve en Halloween. © Netflix

Netflix ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de la segunda temporada de Respira, su drama hospitalario español.

En esta nueva temporada, El Joaquín Sorolla se convierte en un hospital de gestión privada, desafiando las convicciones y principios de sus médicos. Más allá de salirse con la suya, Patricia (Najwa Nimri) sigue luchando contra su cáncer y crea un vínculo cada vez más estrecho con Néstor (Borja Luna). Jésica (Blanca Suárez) busca recuperar la confianza que le caracteriza, pero no puede decidirse entre Lluís (Alfonso Bassave) y Biel (Manu Ríos). Pilar (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) sigue lidiando con las adicciones de su hijo, aunque Quique (Xóan Fórneas) encontrará en ella una inesperada aliada cuando la nueva dirección del centro lo lleve a tomar una cuestionable decisión. A todo esto se suma la llegada de una prestigiosa oncóloga, Sophie (Rachel Lascar), decidida a poner el hospital patas arriba.

Pedro Almodóvar has found his next project. The auteur is now at work on “Bitter Christmas” for Spanish streaming platform Movistar Plus+. Almodóvar also collaborated with the platform on his English-language feature debut, “The Room Next Door.”

“Bitter Christmas,” or “Amarga Navidad,” stars a slew of Almodóvar newcomers and staples, including Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”), Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”), and Quim Gutiérrez (“Darkbluealmostblack”). The film will be released in Spanish theaters in 2026, with Warner Bros. Pictures Spain distributing. It will then debut exclusively on the Movistar Plus+ platform.

IndieWire has reached out to Almodóvar’s representatives for details about a possible U.S. release, though it can be assumed Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in North America, as it has all of Almodóvar’s recent outings. We’re told that festival play and a U.

Spanish streaming and production giant Movistar Plus+ has announced the next film from iconic director Pedro Almodóvar. “Bitter Christmas” (“Amarga Navidad”) will premiere in Spanish theaters in 2026, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Spain, before being made available exclusively on Movistar Plus+’s platform.

The acclaimed Spanish director’s new project, currently filming between Madrid and Lanzarote, is a production of Pedro and his brother Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo with the collaboration of Movistar Plus+.

“Bitter Christmas” boasts a stellar and predictably women-driven cast including European Film Award nominee Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”), Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”) and Quim Gutiérrez (“Darkbluealmostblack”).

An official synopsis for the film, translated from Spanish, reads: “Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend. She throws herself into work as a form of escape,...

Bárbara Lennie regresa al universo almodovariano más de una década después de ‘La Piel que Habito’. © Warner Bros

Tras el estreno de La habitación de al lado, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés –que le valió el codiciado León de Oro en Venecia–, Pedro Almodóvar regresa a casa con Amarga Navidad, su nueva película en castellano, anunciada el pasado mes de octubre y que comenzó su rodaje ayer entre Madrid y Lanzarote. Ahora, ya conocemos su reparto completo y sinopsis oficial.

Elsa es una directora de publicidad cuya madre muere durante un largo puente del mes de diciembre. Encuentra refugio en el trabajo, aunque es más bien una huida hacia adelante. Trabaja sin parar y, sin darse cuenta, no se da tiempo suficiente para guardar el duelo por la ausencia materna. Hasta que una crisis de pánico la obliga a parar y tomarse un descanso. Su pareja, Bonifacio, es...

Beta Cinema has secured the international sales rights for the concentration camp drama “Each of Us,” starring Diane Kruger, whose credits include “In the Fade,” for which she won best actress in Cannes, “Inglourious Basterds,” and “Amrum,” which premieres this week in Cannes.

Other lead members of the cast include Carla Juri, Aida Folch and Ninel Geiger.

The film tells a story of survival, resistance and sorority in the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp – the only one of its kind – during the final days of World War II.

“Each of Us” is directed by an all-female team of four European filmmakers: Anne Zohra Berrached (“24 Weeks”), Neus Ballús, Stina Werenfels (“Dora Or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents”) and Anna Jadowska.

The film, inspired by true stories, is written by screenwriters Eva Pauné and Mirjam Ziegler. It follows the intertwined stories of four women from different countries who struggle to preserve...

Beta Cinema has secured international sales rights for historical drama Each of Us, which follows four inmates at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp during the final days of World War Two.

The cast is led by Diane Kruger, Carla Juri, Aida Folch and Ninel Geiger.

The film revolves around the intertwined stories of four women from different countries, who struggle to preserve their humanity amidst the brutal conditions of the camp. Their lives become linked through a young girl who brings both hardship to them but also hope.

The ground-breaking production, which is currently in production with shoots set for Poland, Germany and Spain, is directed by an all-female team of four acclaimed European filmmakers: Anne Zohra Berrached (24 Weeks), Neus Ballús (The Plague...

Exclusive: FilmNation will launch sales in Cannes on Olivia Wilde’s comedy The Invite starring Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, Edward Norton, and Wilde that has begun principal photography in Los Angeles.

FilmNation and Annapurna Pictures are co-financing the previously announced project about a couple who get the neighbours over to their home for an evening that takes unexpected turns and uncovers “repressed emotions and unexplored sexuality”, according to the producers.

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack adapted the screenplay from the original 2022 Spanish comedy Sentimental by Cesc Gay.

Wilde makes her directorial follow-up after the 2022 thriller and Venice premiere Don’t Worry,...

Exclusive: FilmNation will launch sales in Cannes on Olivia Wilde’s comedy The Invite starring Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, Edward Norton, and Wilde that has begun principal photography in Los Angeles.

FilmNation and Annapurna Pictures are co-financing the previously announced project about a couple who get the neighbours over to their home for an evening that takes unexpected turns and uncovers “repressed emotions and unexplored sexuality”, according to the producers.

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack adapted the screenplay from the original 2022 Spanish comedy Sentimental by Cesc Gay.

Wilde makes her directorial follow-up after the 2022 thriller and Venice premiere Don’t Worry,...

Penelope Cruz is the Oscar-winning actress who was born on April 28, 1974, in Madrid, Spain. Let's take a look back at 16 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Cruz has received four Oscar nominations throughout her career. Her first nomination was for Best Actress for the film “Volver” in 2006. She subsequently received two Best Supporting Actress nominations for “Vicky Christina Barcelona” in 2008 and “Nine” in 2009. She received another Best Actress nom for "Parallel Mothers" (2021).

She won the Oscar for “Vicky Christina Barcelona” making her one of seven actors to win an Oscar for a Woody Allen film.

Cruz first rose to fame in her native Spain. Her performances in many films there and especially in the work of Pedro Almodóvar allowed her to start appearing in American films. She initially struggled a bit to bring the same power in her acting when she spoke English as opposed to Spanish and...

Pedro Almodóvar, who has had a decades-long relationship with the New York Film Festival, will receive a lifetime honor from its presenting organization next month.

The 50th annual Chaplin Award will be presented to the filmmaker April 28 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Presenters who will pay tribute to him at the gala event include performer and artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov; actress Rossy de Palma (the honoree’s longtime muse); pop star Dua Lipa; actor John Turturro; and filmmaker John Waters.

The Chaplin Award Gala is Film at Lincoln Center’s primary annual fundraising event. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit’s programs, including film series, educational initiatives, and marquee events like the New York Film Festival and New Directors/New Films.

The list of previous Chaplin recipients includes Jeff Bridges, Viola Davis, Robert De Niro, Barbara Streisand, Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Altman, Billy Wilder and Elizabeth Taylor.

Pedro Almodóvar is ready to party with the best of ’em. The legendary auteur will be honored with the 50th Chaplin Award during a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 28, as previously announced. Yet it’s the who’s who of eclectic presenters that has us abuzz today: IndieWire can confirm that Dua Lipa, John Waters, Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” star John Turturro, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and long-time Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma will be on hand to toast to the internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker.

The Chaplin Award Tribute will feature excerpts from a selection of the beloved director’s work, appearances by actors, friends, and colleagues, and the presentation of the award itself. The 50th Chaplin Award Gala, presented in partnership with Rolex, will take place at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The annual gala is the premier fundraiser for Film at Lincoln Center, with proceeds...

When Spanish multi-hyphenate Elena Martín Gimeno first got a call to say she would be this year’s recipient of the Málaga Talent Award at the prestigious Malaga Film Festival, she felt it was a “full circle moment.” Having premiered her feature debut “Júlia Ist” at the festival almost a decade ago, the director credits the launchpad as having “made her career possible,” catapulting her to premiere her sophomore effort “Creatura” to great acclaim at Directors’ Fortnight in 2023.

Gimeno directed, wrote and starred in “Creatura,” which went on to win Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight, six Gaudí Awards, and three nominations for the Goya Awards.

As a director and screenwriter, on top of her two feature films, Gimeno has worked on fiction projects such as Canneseries double winner “Vida Perfecta” by Leticia Dolera and “Veneno” by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, their first big international breakout. The creative also...

Two films – local hits The 47 and Undercover – shared the best film prize at Spain’s Goya awards on Saturday night (February 8).

The 47 began the ceremony with 14 nominations and won five awards including best film, supporting actress and actor (Clara Segura and Salva Reina), production design, and special effects.

Arantxa Echevarría’s Undercover received 13 nominations and won best film and best actress for Carolina Yuste.

Produced and distributed by The Mediapro Studio, Marcel Barrena’s The 47 is a social drama about a bus driver fighting for rights in a marginalised area of Barcelona, mainly populated by immigrants from Andalusia during Spain...

Fernanda Torres made history on Thursday morning as only the second Brazilian to receive a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars. The I’m Still Here star follows in the footsteps of her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was the first to do it in 1999 for Central Station. Walter Salles directed both films.

In I’m Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist who copes with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, during Brazil’s military dictatorship. Adapted from Marcelo Rubens Paiva‘s memoir, I’m Still Here earned an additional Oscar bid for Best International Feature.

In January, Torres stunned pundits by winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Actress, solidifying her status as a serious contender for the Oscars. Montenegro’s portrayal of the older version of Torres’ character in the film adds a sentimental layer to this achievement.

“To have this fairytale...

Some friendships are precious and can stand the test of time. In director Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and the circumstances of life separated them. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

We enjoyed speaking with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore about their roles and how real life informed their performances. The Room Next Door’s story goes to intimate and powerful places, asking audiences to contemplate death and how they’ll meet it. Who will hold your hand when the lights dim? What will you say before your last breath?

Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, The Room Next Door is a...

Hans Zimmer's transcendental soundscapes enhanced Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptations. The director addressed the Academy's decision to reject their bid to nominate Zimmer's score for Dune: Part Two.

Director Denis Villeneuve is disappointed that Dune: Part Two was not nominated for Best Original Score for the 2025 Oscars. "I am absolutely against the decision of the Academy to exclude [music composer] Hans [Zimmer], frankly, because I feel like his score is one of the best scores of the year," he asserted (per /Film). "I don't use the word genius often, but Hans is one." The Academy disqualified Zimmer's score, deeming it too similar to Dune: Part One's composition. Academy rules require sequel music to be more than 80% unique from the material used in the preceding installments.

Related Denis Villeneuve Has 1 Major Regret About Dune: Part 2

The director confesses he wished he could make a certain script change to the blockbuster sequel to Dune.

We are just days out from the 2025 Golden Globes and several categories are still too close to call. Perhaps the most wide-open race is Best Film Drama Actress

With many of the top Oscar contenders like Mikey Madison (Anora), Cynithia Erivo (Wicked), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez) over in the Golden Globes’ comedy/musical category, the drama race could be prime for an upset win.

Heavyweights Angelina Jolie (Maria) and Nicole Kidman (Babygirl) are the favorites, according to the Gold Derby panel of experts. Jolie is leading the pack with 37/10 odds and a whopping 1,200 users forecasting her victory, which includes 13 experts, seven editors, and 11 of the site’s top 24 users. Kidman is next at 4/1, followed by Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here) at 9/2, Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl) at 11/2, Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door) at 13/2, and Kate Winslet (Lee) at 7/1.

Despite the odds, there is...

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 26-28) Total gross to date Week 1. Venom: The Last Dance(Sony) £4.3m £4.3m 1 2. The Wild Robot(Universal) £1.9m £6.4m 2 3. Smile 2(Paramount) £1m £4m 2 4. Transformers One(Paramount) £377,581 £3.4m 3 5. The Apprentice(Studiocanal) £372,604 £1.6m 2

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Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance started with a £4.3m weekend – enough to top the UK-Ireland box office, although down on the starts of the first two films in the franchise.

The Last Dance played in 622 sites, taking a £6,915 location average. This is down on the £5.6m start of 2018’s Venom, from 556 sites at a £10,160 average; and...

“It’s a good chance to reflect about mortality,” explained writer-director Pedro Almodóvar about his film “The Room Next Door,” which was the centerpiece selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival. “This is something that at least in my life is very present.” So when he read the proposition in Sigrid Nunez‘s novel “What Are You Going Through,” where a terminally ill woman asks her friend to assist in her suicide, the filmmaker was “very surprised.” Watch his discussion with actors Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro above.

“I thought that that was a very good sequence to develop between two actresses and two characters that they feel in a very different way in front of mortality,” Almodóvar added. Ultimately, Martha (Swinton) wants to end her life on her own terms, and Ingrid (Moore) is terrified at the prospect, but Swinton feels the meaning of the film...

Madrid – The Hague-based Latin Quarter Entertainment, a sales, co-production and distribution outfit, has acquired U.K. and German theatrical rights to “The Bail” (“La fianza”) from debut Colombian-Spanish director Gonzalo Perdomo. The deal was closed during this year’s Iberseries & Platino Industria market in Madrid.

An official synopsis for the black comedy thriller reads: “After celebrating her daughter’s sixth birthday, Ana receives an unwelcome visit from Walter, a strange man looking for her husband Ricardo, with whom he has unfinished business. What begins as a comfortable visit for Ana ends up becoming a disturbing situation in which she discovers Ricardo’s constant lies and infidelities, as well as the real reason why Walter is in her house: to hold her and her daughter as collateral for Ricardo to close a deal with the dangerous drug organization for which Walter works.”

“‘The Bail’ was born from two very simple premises,...

Pedro Almodóvar is the next recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Chaplin Award.

The Oscar-winning writer-director will be celebrated at a gala event featuring excerpts of his work and appearances by co-stars, friends and colleagues at Lincoln Center on April 28, 2025.

The announcement was made ahead of the U.S. premiere and New York Film Festival centerpiece gala screening of Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

The Room Next Door won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival and is set to open in L.A. and New York on Dec. 20 before expanding to select cities on Dec. 25 and going nationwide in January.

One of Spain’s most celebrated filmmakers, Almodóvar’s feature films include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988); Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989); All About My Mother (1999), which won the...

Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) has announced that internationally acclaimed Spanish film director, screenwriter, and author Pedro Almodóvar is the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award. He will be honored during a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 28, 2025.

The announcement was made this evening by Flc President Lesli Klainberg prior to the 62nd New York Film Festival Centerpiece premiere of Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door,” which won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival and opens at Flc on December 20.

Per this evening’s official announcement, “Internationally recognized for his spirited and bold storytelling with a distinctive and colorful visual style, Pedro Almodóvar is one of Spain’s most celebrated filmmakers. His work is characterized by a blend of humor and melodrama and his ability to create resonant, emotional stories often centered around the lives of strong and fearless women. He has...

It's difficult to ascertain where the quote came from, but someone wiser than myself once said that civilization is only nine meals away from anarchy. That is: if the citizens are starved, en masse, for three full days, governmental systems will collapse. One may be a moral, upstanding citizen, but if starved for three days, food theft becomes an attractive, natural option. Another old saying: If you see someone stealing food at the grocery store, no you didn't.

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's "The Platform 2," arriving on Netflix without fanfare on October 4, details the above adage in knuckle crunching detail. This new sequel has the same premise and setting as the first "The Platform," which was consumed voraciously by Netflix subscribers in 2020 right at the start of Covid-related lockdowns. Who would have guessed a bleak, sci-fi story about being trapped inside with limited food would resonate at such a time? "The Platform 2...

Nicole Kidman could be on the verge of receiving her sixth acting Oscar bid for the upcoming A24 erotic thriller “Babygirl,” directed by Halina Reijn, best known for the indie film “Bodies Bodies Bodies” (2022). With the movie already making its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival and Kidman taking home the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, let’s take a closer look at her five previous Oscar nominations, including her one win.

Her first recognition came for the Baz Luhrmann jukebox musical “Moulin Rouge” (2001), where Kidman portrayed a cabaret performer and courtesan in love with an English poet. It is certainly one of her most physical performances, as she performs extravagant musical numbers and showcases strong emotions as her character Satine suffers through an illness. Kidman won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and was part of the movie’s eight Oscar nominations,...

Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar was welcomed to San Sebastian’s Kursaal Theater with a fierce reception on Thursday as the Spaniard picked up a Donostia Award for his “extraordinary contributions to cinema.”

Tilda Swinton, who stars in Almodóvar’s latest feature The Room Next Door — which won Venice’s Golden Lion after a whopping 17-minute standing ovation in Italy — joined the director onstage to celebrate his achievements.

“At my age, a prize like Donostia can indicate the end of a road and a reward for having traveled it,” Almodóvar said after raucous applause. “But I don’t live it like that. For me, cinema is a blessing or a curse. I can’t think of any other way of life if it’s not writing or directing.”

Swinton was full of praise for her colleague. She said to him: “You have planted in each one of us a garden of treasure…...

Pedro Almodóvar reflected on his long career and the political nature of his films at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Siff) where he is in town to receive the festival’s honorary Donostia Award.

Almodóvar attended a packed press conference today (September 26) with cast including Tilda Swinton from his first English-language feature: The Room Next Door, which earlier this month won the Golden Lion at Venice.

Almodóvar arrived in San Sebastian yesterday (September 25), the day of his 75th birthday.

“The last 24 hours have been an emotional whirlwind, even more so than I expected,” said the director. “I have been on the verge of tears,...

The Best Actress race is already extremely stacked as we get closer to the 2025 awards season, with at least 10 significant contenders about to battle it out for only five slots at the Oscars. But if there’s one performance that is going to make it in, I believe it’s Nicole Kidman in “Babygirl,” written and directed by Halina Reijn. Why? Here are my top five reasons.

1. The performance.

Kidman gives a ferocious tour-de-force performance in “Babygirl,” which played at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is opening in theaters in December. Kidman plays a high-powered CEO named Romy who enters a relationship with an intern named Samuel (Harris Dickinson) and in turn puts her job and family in jeopardy. Romy makes questionable choices throughout the narrative, but Kidman always keeps her grounded and empathetic in what I believe is her best movie performance since 2010’s “Rabbit Hole.”

SEENicole Kidman is ‘bold,...

Oscar-winning Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has made a name for himself with a series of brightly colored, delightfully kinky and unabashedly melodramatic titles, mixing comedy, drama, sex and violence to great success. He shows no signs of slowing down, with his latest outing in 2019 being the Oscar-nominated “Pain and Glory.” Let’s take a look back at all 22 of his films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1949 in Spain, Almodovar came to prominence during La Movida Madrilena, a cultural renaissance that blossomed at the end of Francoist Spain. Staring with his filmmaking debut “Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom” (1980), the openly gay director showed an affinity for oddballs and outsiders, populating his films with transvestites, transexuals and homosexuals, all of whom had previously been relegated to the closet. He also showed a talent for working with women, and throughout his 40 year career has placed actresses such as Penelope Cruz,...

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, the two most highly-anticipated films that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night, are in some ways very similar: both are adaptations of novels by filmmakers who have been bringing quality films to TIFF for years, and both center on complex female protagonists played by first-rate actresses. But their receptions at the fest, and their awards prospects moving forward, couldn’t be more different.

The Room Next Door, which is Spaniard Almodóvar’s English-language feature directorial debut, came to Toronto via the Venice Film Festival, and was unveiled here just hours after the Venice jury bestowed upon the film its highest honor, the Golden Lion — which is somehow the first top prize from a major film festival that the 74-year-old auteur has ever been awarded.

Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Through?...

The Oscars will surely knock on Pedro Almodóvar’s door this awards season.

Pedro Almodóvar’s expansive filmography has shaped international cinema for over four decades. With his English-language directorial debut, “The Room Next Door,” fresh off winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Spanish auteur and distributor Sony Pictures Classics are setting their sights on landing Almodóvar’s first best picture nomination.

Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” the film follows two women — war correspondent Martha (Tilda Swinton) and author Ingrid (Julianne Moore) — who reunite after years apart under challenging circumstances.

Read: You can see all Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars

Almodóvar’s body of work has garnered widespread acclaim within the Academy. “All About My Mother” (1999) won the Oscar for international feature, while “Talk to Her” (2002) earned him two noms for directing and original screenplay,...

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” won the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival. The Spanish auteur’s first feature in English took the top prize at the awards ceremony on Saturday, where he accepted the honor in person. Based on Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” the film stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as friends who reunite after several years.

Though Almodóvar’s latest was not reviewed as enthusiastically as most of his films (a high bar to cross), the drama was still favored to do well at the Venice awards. When it premiered earlier this week, it was met with a lengthy standing ovation of almost 20 minutes — a warm reception even for festival audiences. And few are the cinephiles in Europe who do not consider the director of “All About My Mother,” “Talk to Her,” “Volver,” “Bad Education” and “Parallel Mothers” a living great.

Pedro Almodóvar unveiled his latest feature, and his first in English, The Room Next Door, here at the Venice Film Festival this evening, receiving a mega 18-minute, 36-second ovation.

As soon as the lights came on and the audience stood, Almodóvar kissed the hands of both leading ladies, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The unusually long length of the ovation was likely due to the cast and Almodóvar descending from the gallery and staying for awhile, clapping along with the crowd.

The Spanish maestro was joined at the world premiere screening by stars Moore and Swinton. Also featuring in the cast are Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

In the film, Moore stars as Ingrid, a best-selling writer who rekindles a relationship with her friend Martha, a war journalist played by Swinton. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, but Martha...

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton stunned the Venice Film Festival on Monday night with the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” which received a 17-minute standing ovation, the longest of the 2024 edition so far.

After the film ended, the Spanish auteur kissed the cheeks of both Swinton and Moore and lifted up their arms like champion boxers. He then descended the stairs with his new muses, prolonging the ovation by shaking hands with fans in the theater. Swinton, in a white Chanel suit, hugged Moore, dressed in a gold shimmering gown. Moore looked misty-eyed as Almodóvar — in a cotton-candy pink suit — eagerly soaked in all the applause, with the crowd chanting, “Pedro! Pedro! Pedro!”

Almodóvar seemed to be individually waving to each fan in the Sala Grande theater throughout the rapturous applause. He clapped as Moore clutched his arm. As the ovation wound down, around minute 14, Almodóvar...

After debuting his first English-language short, The Human Voice, here at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar has returned to the Lido with his first feature in English, The Room Next Door. The movie world premieres in competition this evening.

The filmmaker, along with stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, met with reporters this afternoon following the first press screenings. The trio talked about everything from euthanasia to climate change, female friendships and their mutual admiration.

In The Room Next Door, Moore stars as Ingrid, a best-selling writer who rekindles a relationship with her friend Martha, a war journalist played by Swinton. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, but Martha has a request that will test their newly strengthened bond. Also featuring in the cast are Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

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Sony Pictures Classics has set a December 20 New York and Los Angeles release for Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

The awards contender will expand to select cities on December 25 before opening nationwide in January 2025.

Almodóvar’s El Deseo produced The Room Next Door, which will premiere in Venice and then travel to Toronto and New York film festivals.

It follows two formerly close friends who worked together at the same magazine. After years apart they meet in “an extreme but strangely sweet situation”. Now one is an autofiction novelist...

The trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film ironically features no dialogue, but every shot tells a story with the accompanying melodic music. The trailer also sets the tone for this moody character drama. Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release The Room Next Door in New York and Los Angeles on December 20, 2024, before expanding to select cities on Christmas Day. The film, starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro, will then open in theaters nationwide in January 2025.

The official synopsis reads,

“The film follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), who were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Tilda Swinton is reuniting with auteur Pedro Almodóvar for his English-language feature debut.

Swinton, who starred in Almodóvar’s short film “The Human Voice,” plays a dying journalist who reunites with her old friend (Julianne Moore). The official synopsis reads: Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, and Juan Diego Botto also star.

The feature is adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” and while filmed in Madrid, is instead centered on Almodóvar’s “career-long fascination with the lives of women for an American vernacular, capturing Manhattan and upstate New York with enraptured affection,...

Renowned Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is premiering his first English-language movie, titled The Room Next Door, at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The drama adaptation stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton and has generated buzz leading up to its debut.

The Room Next Door is based on Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through. It follows the story of Ingrid, a best-selling author played by Moore, who rekindles her friendship with Martha, a war journalist played by Swinton. As the two women discuss their shared past, they grapple with themes of life, death, and the passage of time.

Almodóvar, known for exploring complex emotions and relationships in films like Parallel Mothers, focuses on how Moore and Swinton’s characters cope with realities like the horrors of war in different ways. Their renewed bond is tested when Martha makes an unexpected request. The film weaves their personal histories...

The first footage from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” starring Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, is here.

Sony Pictures Classics dropped a teaser trailer on Tuesday for the film, which marks Almodóvar’s first English-language feature and is set to premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2. According to its synopsis, “The Room Next Door” follows Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), who were close friends in their youth when they worked at the same magazine.

“Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life,” the description continues. “After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.”

In the clip, Swinton is seen in a hospital bed with Moore at her side as dramatic music plays. The two go on to...

Spanish directing legend Pedro Almodóvar will be honored with the Donostia Award for “extraordinary contributions to cinema” at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.

Almodóvar is intimately tied to San Sebastian, having premiered his sophomore feature Pepi, Luci, Bom there in 1980. He returned in 1982 with Labyrinth of Passions, his first collaboration with actor Antonio Banderas and cinematographer Ángel Luis Fernandez and the film that made him a talent to watch.

He would go on to celebrate international success with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which swept Spain’s Goya Awards and secured the director his first Oscar nomination; All About My Mother (1999), which won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film; and Talk to Her (2002), which was nominated for two Oscars and won Almodóvar the best original screenplay honor.

In addition to his many collaborations with Banderas, Almodóvar is closely associated with Spanish star Penélope Cruz,...

Tilda Swinton Julianne Moore in The Room Next Door Photo: Iglesias Más Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton with John Turturro, Alex Høgh Andersen and Alessandro Nivola, will be the Centerpiece selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival. RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys and Steve McQueen’s Blitz are the Opening and Closing Night gala selections.

Almodóvar has a long and honoured history with the festival. Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (NYFF26) was the Opening Night selection, and he also opened NYFF with All About My Mother (NYFF37). Bad Education (NYFF42) and Volver (NYFF44) were selected as Centerpieces, and Live Flesh (NYFF35), Talk To Her (NYFF40), Broken Embraces (NYFF47), and Parallel Mothers (NYFF59) were Closing Night selections. Additional NYFF selections include The Flower Of My Secret (NYFF33), The Skin I Live In...

After just wrapping production a few months ago, Pedro Almodóvar is already putting the finishing touches on his next feature. Following Venice Film Festival’s announcement of a world premiere for The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, it’s now been unveiled as the Centerpiece selection for the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its U.S. premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 4.

Here’s the synopsis: “Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, sharing memories, anecdotes, art, movies—yet Martha has a request that will test their newly strengthened bond. Pedro Almodóvar’s finely sculpted drama, his first English-language feature, is the unmistakable work of a master filmmaker, a hushed and humane portrayal of...

First Madrid, then New York, then Venice, and now: the New York Film Festival.

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” which shot earlier this year on-location in Madrid and Manhattan, will play the New York Film Festival (NYFF) as its Centerpiece on October 4. NYFF has billed the melodrama, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, as a U.S. premiere, which means New York is the next destination for Almodóvar’s first English-language feature after world-premiering in the Venice competition. That also means no Telluride screening, but it could still show up in Toronto for a North American premiere. The NYFF presentation of “The Room Next Door” will take place at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.

Here’s a more detailed synopsis than we’ve seen before, courtesy of NYFF: “Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with...

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, will receive its U.S. premiere as the centerpiece selection for the 2024 New York Film Festival on Oct. 4.

The film, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, marks Spanish auteur Almodóvar’s first English-language feature and follows best-selling writer Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) as they rekindle their friendship after losing touch. As they immerse themselves in past memories, anecdotes, art and movies, Martha makes a request that will test their renewed bond.

“I am delighted that The Room Next Door will be the centerpiece of the New York Film Festival,” said Almodóvar. “This festival has been my bridge to New York audiences for decades, so it only felt natural that the two protagonists go see a film at the Alice Tully Hall in one of the scenes of the movie. It...

Pedro Almodóvar can now count Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore among his new cinematic muses.

The Oscar-winning Spanish director’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door,” was confirmed Tuesday morning as expected to premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in competition. Timed to artistic director Alberto Barbera’s lineup announcement, the festival has also released a first-look image of the film, which you can see above.

Almodóvar has made two short films in English: the Jean Cocteau-inspired breakup tone poem “The Human Voice,” which premiered at Venice in 2020, and gay Western “Strange Way of Life,” starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, which played Cannes 2023. That was all in service of preparing to make his first movie entirely in English, “The Room Next Door,” led by “The Human Voice” star Tilda Swinton as a war correspondent named Martha. Her friend, an author named Ingrid (Julianne Moore), brings various buried...