Julianne Moore to star in Almodóvar’s first English film

Sony Pictures Classics will release the English-language feature-length debut from director Pedro Almodóvar. “The Room Next Door” stars Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro.

The film, according to Almodóvar follows “a very imperfect mother and her resentful daughter, who live separate lives because of a profound misunderstanding.” Swinton plays the mother, a war correspondent, while Moore plays Martha, a friend of the mother who is an auto fiction novelist. The feature starts production in New York and Madrid in March.

“The film talks about the unlimited cruelty of wars, the two different ways these two writers have of approaching and writing about reality, also about death, and how friendship and sexual pleasure can be the best allies to deal with horror,” said Almodóvar in a statement. “It also talks about the pleasure of waking up to birds bringing a new day at a house built on a natural reserve in New England, where the two friends live an extraordinary and awkwardly sweet situation.”