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‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar Delivers A Thoughtful, Vital Film About A Sobering Subject – Venice Film Festival
'The Room Next Door' review: A thoughtful, vital film about a sobering subject – Venice Film Festival
Along 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. The cut and thrust of ideas, life stories, fears and emotional twists between these two forceful, vibrant women — one a novelist, the other a war correspondent for the New York Times — proves a cinematic goldmine. His own work has increasingly focused on climate change and the destruction of the environment; in one of the film’s most provocative scenes, he and Ingrid argue over lunch — taken outdoors, overlooking a sylvan lake — about the place of hope in the face of certain death, whether of the planet or an individual.
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