Deborah Ross

Great knits – shame about the film: Almodovar’s The Room Next Door reviewed

Tilda Swinton's character is selfish and tiresome and you'll wish she would hurry up and die

The sensational knitwear cannot offset the flaws of Pedro Almodovar’s latest: Tilda Swinton as tiresome Martha [© El Deseo, photo by Iglesias Más] 
issue 26 October 2024

The Room Next Door is Pedro Almodovar’s first film in the English language and if it is his last we can probably live with that. The film, which is adapted from a novel by Sigrid Nunez, stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, who are terrific whatever they do, and it is aesthetically divine (the knitwear, in particular, is sensational).

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