17 minutes of standing ovations: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore receive record applause

17 minutes of standing ovations
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore receive record applause

03.09.2024, 10:37 a.m.

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The premiere of Pedro Almodóvar's film “The Room Next Door” at the Venice Film Festival is a huge success. The drama about two friends, played by Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, receives a standing ovation – longer than any other film ever before.

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton made a brilliant and acclaimed appearance at the Venice International Film Festival on Monday evening. The premiere of Pedro Almodóvar's film “The Room Next Door” was greeted with a long round of applause from the audience – the standing ovation lasted 17 minutes, as the industry portal “Variety” reports. No other entry in the film spectacle has ever received so much applause.

After the film ended, the Spanish film director kissed his stars Swinton and Moore on the cheeks and raised their arms in the air like boxing champions. He then walked down the stairs in the Sala Grande theater with his muses and, after 14 minutes, extended the applause by shaking hands with the fans in the new cinema.

The leading actresses' look was also brilliant: Swinton wore a light Chanel suit with a long jacket, Moore a shimmering gold sequin dress. The two 63-year-old women had not let the light drizzle spoil their good mood on the red carpet.

Drama about two friends

The applause for “The Room Next Door,” according to Variety, exceeded that for Brady Corbet's “The Brutalist” (two minutes), Pablo Larraín's “Maria” (eight minutes), starring Angelina Jolie as famous opera singer Maria Callas, and Justin Kurzel's “The Order” (seven minutes), a crime thriller starring Jude Law in the Colonels.

“The Room Next Door” is Almodóvar's first feature film in English. Moore plays a bestselling author named Ingrid who reconnects with her former friend Martha (Swinton). The war correspondent is seriously ill and has to undergo various treatments. Her fate causes Ingrid to increasingly come to terms with her own stability. The drama will be released in Germany on October 24th.