{"id":17241,"date":"2025-02-16T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17241"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:09:38","slug":"the-room-next-door-2024-pedro-almodovar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17241","title":{"rendered":"The Room Next Door (2024, Pedro Almod\u00f3var)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided this movie was very silly, but as death grew nearer, I upgraded(?) to &#8220;very uneven.&#8221;  Opens with so-called good friends discussing their backstories for apparently the first time, all on-the-nose dialogue, real &#8220;foreign auteur working awkwardly in English&#8221; sort of stuff, then gradually accumulates a shockingly high number of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6023\">The Dead<\/a><\/em> quotes.  Julianne Moore is a void of a character, agreeing to vacation with terminal Tilda but sneaking away with John Turturro, all three of whom are writers.  I had no idea when watching some Buster Keaton <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17240\">the night before<\/a> that they&#8217;d unwind in this movie by watching Buster Keaton.  Novelist Nunez had a second movie adaptation come out the same awards season, <em>The Friend<\/em> with Naomi Watts, which hasn&#8217;t come out yet but sounds bad from early reviews.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/roomnext1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/roomnext2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided this movie was very silly, but as death grew nearer, I upgraded(?) to &#8220;very uneven.&#8221; Opens with so-called good friends discussing their backstories for apparently the first time, all on-the-nose dialogue, real &#8220;foreign auteur working awkwardly in English&#8221; sort of stuff, then gradually accumulates a shockingly high number of The Dead quotes. Julianne Moore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1112,633,607,782],"class_list":["post-17241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-julianne-moore","tag-pedro-almodovar","tag-suicide","tag-tilda-swinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17264,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241\/revisions\/17264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}