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Movie Review: With 'The Room Next Door,' Pedro Almodóvar makes a lively movie about death

Dec. 18, 2024 10:21 AM EST

Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still. In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first English-language feature film, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author...

Tilda Swinton explores assisted suicide in Pedro Almodovar’s 'The Room Next Door'

Oct. 07, 2024 23:54 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton notes that he’s never written in a language that anyone else truly speaks. “He writes in Pedro language, and here he is making another film in another version...

Book Review: 'The Last Dream,' short stories scattered with the seeds of Pedro Almodovar films

Sep. 30, 2024 12:33 PM EDT

The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings. The stories and essays were gathered together by Almodóvar's longtime assistant, including many...