By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –     Spanish director Pedro Almodovar entered new territory with his drama film “The Room Next Door” alongside Oscar-winning actors Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The 75-year-old director is known for his Spanish-language films like “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.” However, “The Room Next Door” is his first English-language production. “He’s (Almodovar) so quick,” Swinton told Reuters. “He will…

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Spanish master director Pedro Almodovar’s English-language feature debut is visually rich, but lacking in earthiness.

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The 2025 Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations were unveiled today, where the big surprise was Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” being left out of the competition’s best picture category. Although the film won’t compete for the ceremony’s top honor, its director and both his lead actors, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, all received individual […]

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If Tilda Swinton hadn’t been born in time to play the androgynous protagonist of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992), the director would have had to invent her. Ever since the beginning of her career as a cover girl for the British avant-garde, Swinton has seemed strangely ageless: a protean figure projecting a beguiling mix of Sphinx-like wisdom and fairy-tale whimsy; an alabaster statue granted benevolent sentience. In Orlando, Potter’s adaptation o…

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Jamie Lang The 2025 Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations were unveiled today, where the big surprise was Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” being left out of the competition’s best picture category. Although the film won’t compete for the ceremony’s top honor, Almodóvar and both his lead actors, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, all received individual nods, him for best director and the two performers for best actress. Titles selected for…

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Throughout his career he participated in about 75 films, including iconic titles such as Far Tacones, The Flower of My Secret and All About My Mother

A lo largo de su carrera participó en cerca de 75 películas, incluyendo títulos icónicos como Tacones lejanos, La flor de mi secreto y Todo sobre mi madre

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Despite their visual vivaciousness, Pedro Almodóvar films have long explored the singular weight of death, albeit with an element of stark levity. Volver follows a woman who is periodically haunted by the smell of her dead mother’s farts, Matador sees a sex scene unfold as an uncanny murder-suicide, and a leg of lamb is used to kill in What Have I Done To Deserve This? Although it doesn’t overtly lean into black comedy, Almodóvar’s latest, The R…

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Pedro Almodóvar obsesses over death, actresses, and bright colors in The Room Next Door

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s latest film is “The Room Next Door” — a former war correspondent has terminal cancer, makes a plan to kill herself, and asks her old friend to help.

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Movies that deal directly with death are rare, but those that deal with both death and sex are even rarer. In “The Room Next Door”, the first English feature film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author who has just written a book on death. She is in a book firm in New York when she learns that an old friend, a war correspondent named Martha Hunt (Tilda Swinton), has been diagnosed with cancer.

Las películas que tratan directamente sobre la muerte son raras, pero las que abordan tanto la muerte como el sexo son aún más raras. En “The Room Next Door” ("La habitación de al lado"), el primer largometraje en inglés del director español Pedro Almodóvar, Julianne Moore interpreta a Ingrid, una autora célebre que acaba de escribir un libro sobre la muerte. Está en una firma de libros en Nueva York cuando se entera de que una vieja amiga, una …

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Review: In ‘The Room Next Door’, Almodóvar addresses death with vitality

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film is a fantasy about death, but it’s neither presented in an overtly devastating nor uplifting way. Instead, The Room Next Door takes a middle ground, showing that everyone deserves to leave this world with grace and dignity. It derives much of its drama not from death itself but from the very human conversations surrounding what it means to leave everything behind. One character fears mortality, writing about the sub…

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