Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Almodóvar's English-Language Debut 'The Room Next Door'

The film, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, explores themes of war, reality, death, and the power of friendship and pleasure.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro.
The film will begin shooting in March in New York and Madrid and is produced by Almodóvar’s company, El Deseo.
The Room Next Door is about a very imperfect mother and her resentful daughter, who live separate lives because of a profound misunderstanding. Swinton plays the mother, a war correspondent, while Moore plays a friend of the mother who is an auto fiction novelist.
The film discusses the unlimited cruelty of wars, the different ways these two writers approach and write about reality, death, and how friendship and sexual pleasure can be the best allies to deal with horror.
This acquisition continues Sony Pictures Classics' relationship with Almodóvar, having previously released many of his works, including his Oscar-nominated feature Parallel Mothers in 2021.