The Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar premiered yesterday at the Venice International Film Festival his first feature film in English, The Room Next Doorin competition for the Golden Lion, a drama about the end of life with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore; While his colleague, Frenchman Claude Lelouch, declared: “I can’t wait for next year to start filming!”, who at 86 years old presents his 51ª movie number 51 out of competition.
After years of doubts and some failed attempts in Hollywood, Almodóvar, 74 years old, chose to set his film in New York, the city that opened the doors to him USA when it started, in the 1980s.
Tilda Swinton She is a war correspondent who suffers from terminal cancer, Julianne Moore a successful novelist and friend who agrees to accompany her in her final moments. The actor John Turturro completes the leading trio of this melancholic film.
“I feel much closer to the character of Julianne: I can’t understand why something that is alive has to die. Death is everywhere, but it’s something I never fully understood.”, confessed the author of Pain and Glory before journalists.
“It’s a film in favour of euthanasia. The disease is there and what’s admirable about Tilda’s character is that she decides that ‘cancer won’t get to me if I get there first’,” the director said.
“Personally, I have never been afraid of death. I know it is coming, I feel it is coming. And I support my friends when they begin the transition,” said Tilda Swinton, who, like Julianne Moore, declared herself “happy” to have been able to film under the orders of Almodóvar.
“Very rarely do we see a film about friendship between two women, especially between older women. And I don’t know if there is any other film director in the world that would do that, except Peter,” he added. Julianne Moore.
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In the Show The Italian film was also presented in competition Vermilion, of Maura Delpero, about the hard life of a family living in an isolated village in the Alps, in the last throes of the World War II.
But on the other hand, one of the exclamations that was heard loud and clear at the festival was: “I can’t wait for next year to shoot!”, from the French director, Claude Lelouch, who presents his 86th birthday 51ª film out of competition in Venice.
Two-time Oscar winner, Lelouch He confirmed that he has no intention of hanging up his gloves.
“As long as ideas keep appearing in my head, I will continue doing this job. And right now I’ve never had so many ideas“he said at a press conference.
“I am very aware that at my age, at some point, someone may tell me ‘enough’. But for now my brain is still working very well and, above all, I continue to be amazed,” he added.
His film number 51, Eventually, is a comedy starring Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstein, Michel Boujenah, Sandrine Bonnaire and Françoise Fabian in the lead roles. A film that “resembles” himself a lot, says Lelouch.
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