“I have been to hell and back — and let me tell you, it was wonderful,” a sign reads in the New York apartment of Tilda Swinton’s character, Martha, in “The Room Next Door,” Pedro Almodóvar’s first ...
For more than 50 years, British filmmaker Mike Leigh has been making modestly scaled but profoundly affecting movies about everyday people, their imperfect lots in life, and their need to thrive and ...