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Our next film

We are delighted to continue our season with Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature, The Room Next Door (USA/Spain, 2024, cert 15, 112 mins), winner of the Golden Lion at Venice. This is Almodóvar’s first English-language work, bringing together Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in a quietly mesmerising drama about friendship, mortality and the difficulty of saying goodbye.

Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, the story follows Ingrid, a successful author, who reconnects with Martha, a war correspondent facing terminal cancer. Their reunion is warm, wry and unexpectedly joyful, yet it carries a profound request: Martha intends to spend one final weekend in a rented house, ending her life on her own terms, and asks Ingrid to stay in the room next door. What unfolds is a delicate negotiation of trust, fear and long-buried truths.

Stylistically, the film’s lush orchestral score, rich reds and dreamlike shifts between memory and the present make this unmistakably Almodóvar.

The film treats assisted dying not as an abstract political or ethical question, but as an intimate, deeply personal experience shaped by fear, love and the bonds between two old friends. Moore and Swinton respond with performances of extraordinary poise, balanced by moments of raw vulnerability.

We look forward to welcoming you to share a beautifully crafted, moving and deeply humane film.

You can read the Film Notes here, and watch the trailer here

Booking

All seats need to be booked in advance through the Hive or by visiting the Hive during their normal opening hours
Our capacity is 95 seats
Our Friday films often sell out completely, so please do book early to avoid disappointment.
In bad news for those who loved nothing more than whiling away the hours trying to log into the Hive’s ticketing system, they have just moved over to TicketSource, a popular ticketing provider for arts organisations, charities, and venues across the UK. My personal experience of using TicketSource (mainly via the Belle Vue Arts Festival) is that it is superior to the previous system in every conceivable way.
As part of the change, the current £1 booking fee will be replaced by a 4% + VAT booking fee PER ticket (29 pence), which will go directly to TicketSource. This means the fee will be lower for those buying 3 or fewer tickets and higher for those buying 4 or more tickets at the same time.
There will also be access to TicketSource’s telephone box office outside The Hive’s usual telephone hours

Other information

We are offering the best of world cinema over 16 fortnightly Friday nights. Printed copies of the leaflet are available from The Hive and other outlets or you can download a one-sided poster version here.

Membership

We encourage those of you who would like to support the film society to join as members for a £5 fee for 12 months - many thanks to those of you who have done so already.
This will give you a vote at our AGM and the income will help us to balance our books.
To join, simply transfer £5 to the Cooperative Bank account for Shrewsbury Film Society, account number 65513859, sort code 08-92-99.
If you do this, please make your name(s) clear in the reference on the transfer and email us at shrewsburyfilmsociety@gmail.com to notify us.

Best wishes,
Louis, Andrew and Mike
as the Shrewsbury Film Society Committee