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Pedro Almodóvar and Halina Reijn on Making Movies About Death and Sex in the #MeToo Era
Pedro Almodóvar and Halina Reijn on exploring sex and death in 'The Room Next Door' and 'Babygirl' and making movies about desire in the #MeToo era.
This year, the Spanish auteur and the Dutch filmmaker worked outside their native languages to make movies about transgressive topics: Almodóvar’s “ The Room Next Door ” intertwines a narrative about the intimacy of friendship (led by Swinton and Julianne Moore) with the hot-button subject of euthanasia. I was always in the wings watching men play Richard III and Macbeth and all these characters that were corrupt and that had all these desires, and I, as a female, had to do Ophelia — who has five scenes, and starts as a virgin, and then before you know it, commits suicide. But, at the same time, it’s just incredibly important — whether we make theater, or paintings, or write books, or talk to each other — to keep being open and radically honest about these things that are darker inside us.
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