Liquid Funeral Architectures

«The Room Next Door» (La habitación de al lado, 2024)

Authors

  • Ruth Barranco Raimundo Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25145/j.latente.2026.24.01

Keywords:

Pedro Almodóvar, production design, art direction, Spanish cinema, aesthetics, architecture

Abstract

We analyze the construction of the cinematic image through the production design and art direction of the film The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, 2024).

This film marks Pedro Almodóvar's first feature film shot in English, and it deals with a recurring theme in his filmography: friendship, specifically sisterhood, life, illness, and of course, death.

This project exhibits many changes compared to his previous work, including alterations in the adaptation of the original screenplay, the language of filming, the geographical locations, the technical and creative teams, and above all, the creative dynamics, which are reinvented in a new stylistic permutation. These changes also resonate in the visual architecture of the spaces, serving as a social metaphor for the end of an era.

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Published

2026-07-20

Issue

No. 24 (2026): Illusory Spaces: Presence, Absence, and the Construction of Place in Cinema

Section

Monographic

License

The originals published in Latente are property of their respective authors, who grant to the magazine the right of first publication of the texts and their lodging in other web portals in order to guarantee their preservation and a greater diffusion. Article contents are subject to a CC BY-NC-SA license.

How to Cite

Barranco Raimundo, Ruth. 2026. “Liquid Funeral Architectures: «The Room Next Door» (La Habitación de Al Lado, 2024)”. Latente - Revista de Historia Y Estética del Cine, Fotografí­a Y Cultura Visual, no. 24 (July): 11-48. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.latente.2026.24.01.