Ayala Malls Cinemas’ exclusive offering of award-winning films continues with acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, which will open exclusively in select branches on February 19. Starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last year, and was nominated for several awards at the prestigious Goya Awards, winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Almodóvar, who wrote the script based on the novel “What Are You Going Through” by Sigrid Nunez.
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“‘The Room Next Door’ talks about the rekindling of an old friendship, in an intimate, extreme situation,” says Almodóvar of his first English-language feature film. The Room Next Door, which was part of the QCinema lineup in November, will be back on Philippine screens starting February 19, this time exclusively in select Ayala Malls Cinemas, specifically Glorietta, Greenbelt, Trinoma, Marquee, Abreeza, Centrio, Fairview Terraces, BHS, Legazpi, UPTC, Vertis North, Cloverleaf, Feliz, Circuit, Capitol Central, Manila Bay and Central Bloc.
In the film, Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Total Film praised Almodóvar’s choice of color palette for his latest feature, as well as Swinton and Moore’s performances. “‘The Room Next Door’ is filled with color [pistachio sun loungers, pink snowflakes, rust-coloured leaves and, of course, pops of signature red], not to mention jolts of passion, rage, ambition, lust, hurt, and intrigue,” they wrote. “Deftly navigating a script that takes in poetry, John Huston films, and environmental concerns, Moore and Swinton excel as accomplished women who worry about their failings.”
Ayala Malls Cinemas has become a premier destination for cinephiles for whom critically acclaimed films are a must-watch, thanks to the Cinemas’ ever dependable lineup of exclusive awards season favorites throughout the year.
Aside from the films themselves, the movie-watching experience in Ayala Malls Cinemas is made unforgettable thanks to the premium features they offer: plush seating and generous legroom, cutting-edge laser projections for sharper images, and top-notch Dolby Sound and Dolby Atmos technologies to enhance audio depth – moviegoers are in for an exceptional cinematic experience.
Don’t miss The Room Next Door, which will be back in Philippine cinemas when it opens exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas on February 19.
