Two stars dancing with death in Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’
In 2019, the Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar addressed the indignities of age and creative drought in “Pain and Glory,” one of his richest and most personal films. Five years on, at the age of 75, he’s contemplating death itself.
Pedro Almodóvar stares death in the face with the beautiful but clunky The Room Next Door
Not even an iconic aesthete such as Almodóvar’s can run away from the fact that his first full-length English-language screenplay plays it all far too straight
Tilda Swinton faces death (& friendship) in ‘The Room Next Door’
Tilda Swinton reunites with Spain’s formidable auteur Pedro Almodóvar for the deeply dramatic look at friendship and mortality that is “The Room Next Door.”
In 'The Room Next Door,' Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton make a fiery pair of friends
In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first English-language feature film, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author who’s just written a book about death. She’s at a book signing in New York when she hears that an old friend,
Tilda Swinton thinks about death and says you should, too
Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.
Why Pedro Almodóvar believes in euthanasia — and celebrating life
Inspired by the 2020 novel 'What Are You Going Through,' Pedro Almodóvar created a movie that examines mortality.
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'The Room Next Door' finds solace in the acceptance of death
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton plays a former war correspondent with cervical cancer who asks her friend, played ...
The Costumes in Pedro Almodóvar’s First English-Language Feature Film Up the Luxury Quotient in Bottega Veneta and Other Labels
Costume designer Bina Daigeler dressed Tilda Swinton and Julianna Moore in racks of Bottega Veneta, vintage Celine, and The ...
Here’s where ‘The Room Next Door,’ starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, filmed in N.J.
The Westfield police station plays the Lake Hill, New York police station in the story, which also stars Emmy winner John ...
In 'The Room Next Door,' Pedro Almodovar captures the depths of friendship at death's doorstep
Spanish filmmaker's first movie shot in the US captures the bond between two women, as one claims her final act.
The Women in ‘The Room Next Door' Are on the Verge of Death and Sadness in Bottega Veneta
In Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language feature film, costume designer Bina Daigeler pulled out all the stops in bold ...
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'The Room Next Door' Is Cathartic but Clumsy
How much would you be willing to show up for an old estranged friend? In The Room Next Door, Ingrid ( Julianne Moore) and ...
Review: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore shine in Pedro Almodóvar’s haunting ‘The Room Next Door’
“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 ...
Review: ‘The Room Next Door’ poignant take on life & death
Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still.