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The Room Next Door

2024. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, written by Pedro Almodóvar and Sigrid Nunez.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    13 women characters. 10 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 2 scenes out of 3.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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Poster for The Room Next Door

The film

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Released
18 Oct 2024
Genres
Drama
Rated
PG-13
IMDb
6.7 / 10
Metascore
70 / 100
Awards
15 wins & 36 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Ingrid 268 lines, woman
  2. Martha 209 lines, woman
  3. Damian 45 lines, man
  4. Policeman 19 lines, man
  5. Wife 19 lines, woman
  6. Photographer 18 lines, man
  7. Fred 17 lines, man
  8. Bernardo 11 lines, man
  9. Fire Chief 11 lines, man
  10. Michelle 11 lines, woman
Full cast, 27 people
  • Julianne Moore as Ingrid
  • Tilda Swinton as Martha / Michelle
  • John Turturro as Damian
  • Alessandro Nivola as Policeman
  • Juan Diego Botto as Photographer
  • Raúl Arévalo as Spanish Priest (Bernardo)
  • Victoria Luengo as Fred's Wife
  • Alex Høgh Andersen as Fred
  • Esther McGregor as Young Martha
  • Alvise Rigo as Jonah (The Trainer)
  • Melina Matthews as Lawyer
  • Sarah Demeestere as Stella
  • Anh Duong as Anh
  • Bobbi Salvör Menuez as Bobbi (Ingrid Fan)
  • Annika Wahlsten as Ingrid Fan with Girlfriend
  • Shane Woodward as Fire Chief
  • Paolo Luka Noé as Spanish Priest 2
  • Cristina Kovani as Gym Receptionist
  • Nya Bowman as Nurse
  • Dora Rowdon
  • Viktor Longo
  • Antonios Antoniadis as Policeman Assistant
  • Celia Rocha as Bowling Girl
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Toon De Melker as Bowling Boy
  • Ira Gramerman as Diner Patron (uncredited)
  • Tom Johnson as Guest (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 3

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 18110
2 to 2417106
3 to 3448

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
STELLA: Could you sign mine? INGRID: Stella! I didn’t even see you… INGRID: Why didn’t you come straight up? STELLA: I was embarrassed. You draw a crowd! A lot of young people and not just women…
MARTHA: I’m fucking over this… INGRID: Can you help her?
MARTHA: Bring it on. MARTHA: I’ll end up turning into a junkie. I am one already, I guess. INGRID: It’s okay, really. MARTHA: Are you still here?
INGRID: No. INGRID: Hi, how are you? MARTHA: Better, much better since you said yes. INGRID: Where are you? Are you at home?
INGRID: Thank you. MARTHA: According to the map, we go up these steps to enter the house. INGRID: Wow! It’s so beautiful! MARTHA: It’s so much more beautiful than the photographs!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 81 are women's.

542 lines from women, 124 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

13 women and 10 men in the cast. 10 women and 6 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 8 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 79% of the words (6,832), men 21% (1,787). Women have 81% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Run the other way, for men, the film scores 1 out of 3.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit F: behind the camera

6 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Pedro Almodóvar (man)
Written by
Pedro Almodóvar (man)
From the novel by
Sigrid Nunez (woman)
Produced by
Agustín Almodóvar (man)
Shot by
Eduard Grau (man)
Edited by
Teresa Font (woman)
Music by
Alberto Iglesias (man)
Production design by
Inbal Weinberg (woman)
Costumes by
Bina Daigeler (woman)
Cast by
Geraldine Barón (woman), Salome Oggenfuss (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Production

    5 women, 4 men, 19 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 7 men, 9 not listed

  • Art

    2 women, 4 men, 8 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    3 women, 2 men, 9 not listed

  • Sound

    0 women, 5 men, 8 not listed

  • Lighting

    0 women, 2 men, 4 not listed

  • Visual Effects

    1 women, 1 men, 4 not listed

  • Other crew

    1 women, 1 men, 3 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 46 on average. Men: 46 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Esther McGregor 22, Victoria Luengo 34, Julianne Moore 63, Tilda Swinton 63

Men

Alex Høgh Andersen 30, Alvise Rigo 31, Raúl Arévalo 44, Juan Diego Botto 49, Alessandro Nivola 52, John Turturro 67

Exhibit H: the money

It made 1.4 times what it cost.

Budget
$15 million
Box office
$21.5 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

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Our parser read the script: 3 scenes and 681 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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