Tilda Swinton on the '18-and-a-Half-Minute' Standing Ovation for 'The Room Next Door' at the Venice Film Festival | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Tilda Swinton discusses Pedro Almodóvar's film 'The Room Next Door' and its 18-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival in the Variety Studio at TIFF.

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00:00Well, congratulations on The Room Next Door, and I know you were at the Venice Film Festival

00:04where the film received a 17-minute ovation.

00:07It was 18 and a half.

00:09So, you know, that is an amazing reception, but I wonder, what do you do during an 18

00:16and a half minute standing ovation, and is it awkward at all to kind of receive that

00:22kind of response?

00:23It's a funny thing.

00:24It's a very good question, because there are ovations and there are ovations, and it's

00:31a bit of a ritual now, particularly at Venice, the long ovation.

00:36It's an old tradition.

00:38People used to actually employ clacks, pay people to stand and do a lot of clapping.

00:44In opera, it's a whole thing, you know, and I don't know whether that actually happens

00:49in Venice, but it feels like it's become.

00:52People bring out timers in Venice, and they brought out a timer for us, but this time

00:57I have to say it felt really particular, because, I don't know, it was Pedro.

01:01It felt like it was really personal and that the audience were really wanting to love him

01:08and send him a loving message.

01:11It was really relatively easy.

01:14It's always tricky for some people, and I'm one, to stand up in public and be, you know,

01:20have light on you, but if you're standing next to Pedro, it's alright, because you know

01:24that actually it's all about him.

Tilda Swinton on the '18-and-a-Half-Minute' Standing Ovation for 'The Room Next Door' at the Venice Film Festival | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024

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