September 07, 2024 | 23.06
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“You didn’t think you’d receive this award, but then when you have it you become addicted. Now I think I can’t live without this Golden Lion,” said Pedro Almodovar during the closing press conference of the 81st Venice Film Festival. “I’ve seen some films from this edition and I think it was extraordinary. I have no words.”
The winner of the Golden Lion is ‘The Room Next Door’, the first film in English by the Spanish master. The film, which focuses on the delicate theme of euthanasia, stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, who play Martha, a war reporter, and Ingrid, a writer, respectively: two old friends who reunite after years of silence with Martha’s terminal illness.
“It’s a film in favor of euthanasia,” Almodóvar said a few days ago. “The disease,” the director explained, “is part of the story, but what I admire about the character played by Tilda (Swinton, ed.) is her determination: freeing herself from cancer becomes her conscious choice. She wants to leave before the disease gets the better of her, and she finds a way to achieve her goal. The terrible thing is that she and those who help her are forced to behave like criminals.”
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