So glamorous, Pedro!” exclaims Tilda Swinton, seeing Pedro Almodóvar arrive at the Vogue photo shoot dressed in a custom suit by Anthony Vaccarello. Next to her, laughing contagiously, is Julianne Moore, her co-star in The Room Next Door, the director's first feature film shot entirely in English.
It is a spring day in the north of Madrid, and production has paused for Vogue, hours before the team flies to New York to shoot the final scenes of what is already being billed as one of the films of 2024. It releases in Australia on December 26, eight months after completing production, but premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film. Almodóvar also passed through San Sebastián for the film festival, where he received the Donostia Award in recognition of his entire career, and the New York Film Festival in October.
“I'm not that old, but I feel the scarcity of time and think about what I have left. I