Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door ‘ Set As New York Film Festival Centerpiece Selection
deadline.comPedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature The Room Next Door with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton will be the Centerpiece selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival.
The drama, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Through, make its U.S. premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Oct.
4, said the fest’s parent Film At Lincoln Center. 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. As the NYFF put it, Almadovar here reframes his career-long fascination with the lives of women for an American vernacular, set in Manhattan and upstate New York.
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