Pedro Almodovar tried it with Manual for cleaning women, a novel by the American writer Lucia Berlin that was going to star Cate Blanchett. The director from La Mancha wanted to get rid of the problem of filming a film in English after the shorts The human voice and strange way of lifebut the project did not end up coming together and meeting the filmmaker’s expectations.
Almost a year later, Almodóvar announced that his dream project, filming a film completely in English, was beginning to take shape. Next roomthe new film by the filmmaker from La Mancha that Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton will starwho had already collaborated with the filmmaker on The human voiceaccompanied by John Turturrowill be released in Spain on next October 18 from the hand of Warner.
The Spanish Juan Diego Botto, Raul Arevalo, Melina Matthews and Victoria Luengoand the American Alessandro Nivolajoin the cast of the film, as reported by El Deseo in a press release in which it also confirmed that filming of the feature film has ended.
The story of Next room Its the a very imperfect mother and a spiteful daughter separated by a great misunderstanding. Between them, another woman, Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a friend of her mother, is the repository of both of their pain and bitterness. Martha, the mother (played by Tilda Swinton), is a war reporter and Ingrid is an autofiction novelist.
The film talks about the limitless cruelty of wars, about the very different ways in which the two writers approach and write about reality. Almodóvar’s first feature film in English talks about death, friendship and sexual pleasure as the best allies to fight against horroralso talks about the sweet awakening to the chirping of birds in a house built in the middle of a nature reserve in New England, where the two friends live in an extreme and strangely sweet situation.
Madrid has been, and is, an active entity in the filmography of the director from La Mancha. Its streets, bars, hotels, terraces, churches and squares have been Witness the juiciest and most Shakespearian narrative dramas. Almodóvar’s films cannot be understood without the city that has made it possible for his personality and his art to develop. He is an extra, although main, character in a rich audiovisual resume that has established Almodóvar as one of the most important contemporary directors inside and outside of Hollywood.
To pay tribute to the urban core adapted to the aesthetics almodovarianspace count Duke hosts, until next time October 20the exposure Madrid, Almodóvar girl: a tour of all the enclaves of the capital that appear in the films of the filmmaker from La Mancha. From the scene filmed in Plaza Mayor for The flower of my secret (as well as other purely Madrid spaces such as the headquarters from the newspaper The country on Miguel Yuste Street), passing through the Puente de Vallecas neighborhood that appears in Return or the Kio towers that appear in Tremulous Fleshthe exhibition is a journey through time that witnesses the changes in the capital and in the creator’s own cinema.
