The Room Next Door
2024 · Movie · PG-13 · 106 min · ★ 6.7 · 75% critics
Two longtime friends reconnect after years apart when one faces a life-changing illness. As they share memories and fears, their renewed bond is tested by a difficult request that raises emotional, moral, and legal questions in a quiet, intimate setting.
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Details
- Original title
- La habitación de al lado
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-10-07
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Critic score
- 75/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (680 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an intimate, dialogue-driven drama about friendship, mortality, and personal choice, with flashes of humor and tenderness, in the vein of Julieta or Parallel Mothers; Not for you if you dislike slow, talk-heavy stories.
Pros: powerful lead performances; thoughtful moral questions; moments of warmth | Cons: very talky at times; uneven pacing; can feel emotionally distant
Themes
- new york city
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- nihilism
- war correspondent
- female friendship
- woodstock, new york
- bosnian war (1992-95)
- bereavement
- cancer
- writer
- novelist
- +7 more
Awards & recognition
- Golden Lion · 2024
- European Film Award — Best Film · 2024 · nominated
Cast & crew
Julianne Moore
as Ingrid
Tilda Swinton
as Martha / Michelle
John Turturro
as Damian
Alessandro Nivola
as Policeman
Juan Diego Botto
as Photographer
Raúl Arévalo
as Spanish Priest (Bernardo)
Victoria Luengo
as Fred's Wife
Alex Høgh Andersen
as Fred
Esther-Rose McGregor
as Young Martha
Alvise Rigo
as Jonah (The Trainer)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar