{"id":2147,"date":"2025-12-16T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koubek.wpenginepowered.com\/event\/the-room-next-door\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:16:49","slug":"the-room-next-door","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/event\/the-room-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The Room Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by <strong>Pedro Almod\u00f3var<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spain | 2024 | 106 min | EnglishWednesday, October 30 at 7:30pm \u2013 Koubek Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short:<\/strong> Legendary Spanish director <strong>Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s<\/strong> first English-language feature film stars <strong>Julianne Moore<\/strong> and <strong>Tilda Swinton<\/strong> as friends who have their relationship tested while on a summer holiday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> Ingrid (<strong>Julianne Moore<\/strong>) and <strong>Martha<\/strong> (T<strong>ilda Swinton<\/strong>) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine once upon a time. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again. But the joys of being reunited are tempered when Martha makes a request, one that will test their newly strengthened bond.<\/p>\n<p>In legendary Spanish director <strong>Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s<\/strong> first English-language feature film, all of his signature trademarks are on full display. Be it the vibrant color palette seen in <strong>Eduard Grau\u2019s<\/strong> lush cinematography, the enviable set design, or his uncanny ability to blend off-beat humor with melodrama, this is an <strong>Almod\u00f3var<\/strong> film through and through. But what really sets <strong><em>The Room Next Door <\/em><\/strong>apart is the performances from <strong>Swinton<\/strong> and <strong>Moore<\/strong>. In one of the year\u2019s most inspired pairings, the two beloved actresses bring a pathos and levity to the work, making it a film far more about life \u2013 memories, anecdotes, and the things that make our existence worthwhile \u2013 than it is about death.<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be followed by the <strong>GEMS<\/strong> Opening Night party in the <strong>Centro Koubek<\/strong> courtyard.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Pedro Almod\u00f3var Spain | 2024 | 106 min | EnglishWednesday, October 30 at 7:30pm \u2013 Koubek Center Short: Legendary Spanish director Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s first English-language feature film stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as friends who have their relationship tested while on a summer holiday. Long: Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"event-language":[],"event-month":[],"event-year":[],"koubek-center-only-status":[],"mec_category":[70],"class_list":["post-2147","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-film"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"event-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-language?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"event-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-month?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"koubek-center-only-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/koubek-center-only-status?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koubekcenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}