Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Two old friends confront mortality together in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, a 2024 Spanish drama built around a reunion neither woman expected to need.
What is The Room Next Door about?
Martha, a former war correspondent facing a terminal diagnosis, reconnects with Ingrid, a writer she has not seen in years, and asks her for an unusual kind of company: to simply be present, in the next room, while Martha chooses how her final days will unfold on her own terms. Ingrid agrees, unsure of what she is signing up for, and the two women settle into a rented house upstate where old memories, old arguments and new tenderness surface between them. The film moves quietly between present-day conversation and flashes of the life Martha lived before, letting silence carry as much weight as dialogue.
Cast & crew
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton share the film's two central roles, playing the friendship with restraint rather than melodrama, while John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola appear in supporting parts that widen the emotional frame around the two women. Pedro Almodóvar directs his first full English-language feature here, carrying over the vivid color sense and interest in female friendship that mark his Spanish-language work, while adapting his rhythm to an English script. Juan Diego Botto and Raúl Arévalo round out the cast.
Context & significance
The Room Next Door is a Spanish production and marks a notable turn for Almodóvar, who has spent decades directing almost exclusively in Spanish before making this English-language drama with two American and British leads. The film draws on Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through, translating its meditation on friendship, choice and dying into Almodóvar's own visual language. It premiered in 2024 to festival attention for its lead performances and for how directly it engages with the subject of assisted dying.
Where & how to watch
K-Time streams The Room Next Door with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the two central performances without losing the film's quieter, dialogue-driven moments. This page is free to read without signing in; watching the film itself requires a K-Time account. The platform's Farsi-first design, from menus to subtitles, is built specifically for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.