Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language movie ‘The Room Next Door’ , which tackles the hefty themes of euthanasia and climate change, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. To Read Lifestyle Stories in Urdu- Click Here Starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, the film received an 18-minute standing ovation when it premiered at Venice earlier in the week – one of the longest in recent memory. Almodovar is a darling of the festival circuit and was awarded a lifetime achievement award at Venice in 2019 for his bold, irreverent and often funny Spanish-language features.
A post shared by The Room Next Door (@theroomnextdoormovie) He also won an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category for his 1999 film ‘All About My Mother’ . Now aged 74, he has decided to try his hand at English, focusing his lens on questions of life, death and friendship. Speaking after collecting his prize, he said euthanasia should not be blocked by politics or religion.
“I believe that saying goodbye to this world cleanly and with dignity is a fundamental right of every human being,” he said, speaking in Spanish. He also thanked his two female stars for their performances. “This award really belongs to them, it’s a film about two women and the two women are Julianne and Tilda,” he said.
A post shared by Sony Pictures Classics (@sonyclassics) While ‘The Room Next Door’ had been widely tipped to win, the runner-up Silver L.