Pedro Almodóvar receives a 17-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival

Accompanied by actresses Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returned to Venice to present his first film in English, which has been a huge success, and is therefore competing for the Golden Lion.

The director’s first film in a foreign language offers a reflection on death, starring Tilda and Julianne, the story’s leading duo. In the film, Swinton plays Martha, a war correspondent suffering from terminal cancer, and Moore plays Ingrid, a successful novelist and friend who agrees to accompany her in her final moments.

Pedro commented that this film is in favor of euthanasia, “the disease is there and what is admirable about Tilda’s character is that she decides that ‘cancer will not reach me if I get there first.”

“I think that Spain is the fourth European country to have a euthanasia law, but it is urgent that it exists throughout the world, without political or judicial regulation. I think that simply the doctor who attests to the seriousness of the patient and his situation should be enough,” he added.

The Spaniard broke the record of the Mostra so far, receiving a standing ovation from the public that lasted 17 minutes. The story focuses on the story of two friends who for a long time worked at the same magazine in New York, after staying apart, they reconnect and now one of them is a successful novelist and the other is facing the final stages of cancer.