Spanish director Pedro Almodovar makes his feature English language debut with The Room Next Door. Here’s the teaser trailer.
Pedro Almodovar has – of course – a hugely impressive filmography behind him, from his breakthrough film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown to more recent successes like Volver, his highest grossing film worldwide to date.
After several English language short films, including Strange Way of Life starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, Almodovar makes his feature English language debut with The Room Next Door.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. 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 in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Pedro Almodovar has – of course – a hugely impressive filmography behind him, from his breakthrough film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown to more recent successes like Volver, his highest grossing film worldwide to date.
After several English language short films, including Strange Way of Life starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, Almodovar makes his feature English language debut with The Room Next Door.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. 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 in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
- 8/21/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Pedro Almódovar has written a book, described as a “fragmentary autobiography”. It includes a love story between Jesus and Barabbas and a sad vampire.
If you’re looking for the inside scoop on how Pedro Almódovar made Bad Education, Pain & Glory or Strange Way Of Life, you might have to keep waiting. The Spanish director has a new book coming out later this year, and it absolutely, equivocally, demonstrably isn’t an autobiography. Sort of.
The Last Dream brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day, some of which contain elements of his own life.
The stories include: a love story between Jesus and Barabbas; a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend; the primary version of the film Bad Education; a gothic tale of a repentant vampire among monks and a...
If you’re looking for the inside scoop on how Pedro Almódovar made Bad Education, Pain & Glory or Strange Way Of Life, you might have to keep waiting. The Spanish director has a new book coming out later this year, and it absolutely, equivocally, demonstrably isn’t an autobiography. Sort of.
The Last Dream brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day, some of which contain elements of his own life.
The stories include: a love story between Jesus and Barabbas; a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend; the primary version of the film Bad Education; a gothic tale of a repentant vampire among monks and a...
- 5/9/2024
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
The Book Of Clarence postulates apostle traits for an invented figure whose place among the apocrypha opens with a chariot race. That's a competition with a heavy wager to pay off a debt to a criminal figure, and over-leveraged borrowing is everywhere in the film.
The presence of a parallel Messiah can't but be compared to Life Of Brian. This was filmed in Matera, the Unesco heritage Italian village carved into the cliffs of a steep valley which was also where The Passion Of The Christ was shot. If those seem uncomfortable tonal companions then know that The Book Of Clarence is full of similar variety, with similarly mixed results.
Lakeith Stanfield's charisma does a lot of the lifting, from stolen cloaks to various spirits. Omar Sy as the slave gladiator Barabbas first appears wearing a helmet that seems to be based on the mask worn by rapper Mf Doom,...
The presence of a parallel Messiah can't but be compared to Life Of Brian. This was filmed in Matera, the Unesco heritage Italian village carved into the cliffs of a steep valley which was also where The Passion Of The Christ was shot. If those seem uncomfortable tonal companions then know that The Book Of Clarence is full of similar variety, with similarly mixed results.
Lakeith Stanfield's charisma does a lot of the lifting, from stolen cloaks to various spirits. Omar Sy as the slave gladiator Barabbas first appears wearing a helmet that seems to be based on the mask worn by rapper Mf Doom,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s just another day on the mean streets of Judea circa 33 A.D., where people hang out on sunbaked corners talking smack, working-class stiffs scramble to get by, and Roman centurions — the LAPD of their day — stop and frisk anyone who they feel matches the description of a suspect. (As in: anyone that does not look like a white Roman centurion.) If you’re lucky, you might get to see a chariot street race already in progress, like the one between Clarence (Lakeith Stanfield) and Mary Magdalene (Teyana Taylor...
- 1/12/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “The Book of Clarence,” featuring Lakeith Stanfield as a contemporary of Jesus In Jerusalem, directed by Jeymes Samuels (“The Harder They Fall”). In theaters on January 12th, 2024.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Clarence (Stanfield) is a small time “herb” dealer in Jerusalem in 33 Ad, during the time of the adult Jesus. Frustrated at his status in life and owing money, he recruits his best friend Elijah (Rj Tyler) and former slave Barabbas (Omar Sy) to become part of a scheme to create their own following, with Clarence as a messiah. To make this work, he seeks advice from Jesus’ mother Mary (Alfre Woodard), gets baptized by the famous John (David Oyelowo) and seeks the approval of the woman he wants to woo (Anna Diop). What could go wrong?
“The Book of Clarence” is in theaters on January 12th. Featuring Lakeith Stanfield, Rj Tyler, Omar Sy,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Clarence (Stanfield) is a small time “herb” dealer in Jerusalem in 33 Ad, during the time of the adult Jesus. Frustrated at his status in life and owing money, he recruits his best friend Elijah (Rj Tyler) and former slave Barabbas (Omar Sy) to become part of a scheme to create their own following, with Clarence as a messiah. To make this work, he seeks advice from Jesus’ mother Mary (Alfre Woodard), gets baptized by the famous John (David Oyelowo) and seeks the approval of the woman he wants to woo (Anna Diop). What could go wrong?
“The Book of Clarence” is in theaters on January 12th. Featuring Lakeith Stanfield, Rj Tyler, Omar Sy,...
- 1/10/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Jeymes Samuel, aka The Bullitts, directed a Western in 2021 called "The Harder They Fall," which took the names of real post-Civil War cowboys and gunslingers and put them into a highly stylized, highly fictionalized adventure story that was exhilarating to watch and refreshingly complex. What Samuel seemed to be doing was reclaiming the Western genre from the hands of boors like John Wayne and his associated "white savior" stories that, for many Hollywood generations, deliberately ignored the Black experience.
Samuel now takes a similar approach to the Hollywood Biblical epic with "The Book of Clarence," an exciting, ambitious, sloppy, but somewhat excellent New Testament remix, replete with a mishmash of tones, anachronisms, and interesting ideas. "Clarence" sees Jerusalem in Ad 33 as the setting of a modern crime drama, wherein the title character (Lakeith Stanfield) interacts with a slap-happy John the Baptist (David Oyelowo), his own bitter twin brother Thomas the...
Samuel now takes a similar approach to the Hollywood Biblical epic with "The Book of Clarence," an exciting, ambitious, sloppy, but somewhat excellent New Testament remix, replete with a mishmash of tones, anachronisms, and interesting ideas. "Clarence" sees Jerusalem in Ad 33 as the setting of a modern crime drama, wherein the title character (Lakeith Stanfield) interacts with a slap-happy John the Baptist (David Oyelowo), his own bitter twin brother Thomas the...
- 1/9/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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