Movie theater. Should we go see “La Chambre next door”, the new film by Pedro Almodovar?

The films of Almodovarby definition, must be privileged in our choices of moviegoers. Especially since the latest is certainly one of its most formally and emotionally accomplished.

Two exceptional actresses

Worn by Two exceptional actresseswe are going to come back, he puts us in the presence of two old friends who, after a lot of years of involuntary separation, find themselves fortuitously, well installed in their sixties. Ingrid has become a successful novelist. Martha had a career in war reporting. Their reunion will be under the sign of an announced end. Martha has incurable cancer.

She lives her last weeks and will ask for help and assistance to her lifelong friend. Martha got a lethal pill on the Dark Web. She rents a splendid house in the heart of the forest, not far from New York and invites Ingrid to come and live with her her last moments. The code is as follows. If, one morning, the door of his room is closed, it will be finished. It is the moment of course to gather some memories, evoking by laughing a lover that they had in common.

Flashbacks show them teenagers, then in their professional maturity. In particular during a report by Martha in the Middle East, a parenthesis allowing his colleague reporter to find on the spot one of his former loves become religious, opportunity for the director and screenwriter to slide the importance of the carnal relationship in the war situations.

Cinema genius

Pedro Almodovar assumes his desires, that of bright and contrasting colors, that of plans that would be said to be drawn to the stylus, that of a montage whose clarity and precision participate in formal narration, that of the management of its actors that We guess under the spell of this cinema genius, that of these sets leaving the protagonists all the space to their emotions.

By bringing together two actresses whom we know outstanding, the Spaniard could not choose better. Diaphanne in his skin as in his eyes which already contemplate another world, Tilda Swinton is this overwhelming Martha decided to take the last step according to his vows. Unforgettable! In nothing, but on a completely different register, Julianne Moore encamps an Ingrid even in a model of a compassion all in restraint but of an intensity and a loyalty to any test.

A radiant film

The final of the scenario poses the problem of the end of life programmed by the patient and the multiple obstacles, here in America, which she meets. Far from all pathos, a sublime, heartbreaking film, melancholy and, ultimately, radiant.

Robert PÉNAVAYRE

The next room, a film by Pedro Almodovar

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