Monday Night Cinema

The Room Next Door

Acclaimed author Ingrid (Julianne Moore) learns her old friend Martha (Tilda Swinton) - a successful war correspondent - has cancer. Ingrid visits Martha in hospital and the pair reestablish their dormant friendship. As they reflect on the past and learn more about each other, a dying Martha asks her friend for one final favour - to be in the room next to her when she takes her own life. It’s a request that tests their friendship and Martha’s emotional resolve. 

Pedro Almodóvar has lost none of his trademark directorial flair in his first English language feature. With a tremendous pair of lead performances from Moore and Swinton, The Room Next Door is a compassionate, frank and darkly humorous study of end-of-life.