‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar Delivers A Thoughtful, Vital Film About A Sobering Subject – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comAlong with his fondness for red cars, absurd sexual encounters and earthy Spanish matriarchs, Pedro Almodóvar has a much more melancholy special subject that keeps cropping up in his otherwise dynamic films: the fact of death.
Long before making The Room Next Door, his first English-language feature, he has frequently gone on record saying that, unlike the people living in the region of small villages in Spain where he grew up, he has never been able to accept the idea that something living — least of all him — will die.
It is a gut horror he shares with Ingrid (Julianne Moore), who reluctantly agrees to help an old friend Martha (Tilda Swinton) to take her own life before her stage-four cervical cancer does.
When an initially hopeful prognosis is reversed, Martha hatches a plan to rent a house somewhere beautiful for a month and, when the moment seems right, take a suicide pill she has bought online.
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