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‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Tilda Swinton Gives a Monumental Performance as a Woman Confronting Death in Pedro Almodóvar’s First English-Language Drama
Tilda Swinton plays a woman confronting death in Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language drama.
Yet it’s still rare to encounter a big-screen drama that grabs death by the horns, that looks it in the eye, that asks us to confront its daunting reality on every level the way Pedro Almodóvar ’s lyrical and moving “ The Room Next Door ” does. The movie, while it has a sprinkling of other characters (like the man they both dated, a climate-change doomsayer played by John Turturro), is essentially a two-hander, a series of conversations between the two women that could almost be taking place on stage. “The Room Next Door” is vibrantly shot (by Eduard Grau), notably when the characters move to a fancy modernist rented vacation home in the upstate country outside Woodstock, NY.
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