The Room Next Door
“The snow was falling. Falling faintly throughout the universe. And faintly falling on all the living and the dead.” Morbid, melancholic and meditative, The Room Next Door is a soft-spoken and directly delivered English debut from the auteur Almodóvar that overcomes clunky melodramatic dialogue thanks to its two perfectly paired leads, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, in a darkly moving exploration of mortality and morality. Discussion Points: Pedro Almodóvar’s English language feature debut has garnered mixed reactions. Lots of comments about melodramatic and clunky dialogue or messy pacing, but I personally was steadily swept up in this films poignant pace as it mediated on the subject of life and death. It’s an oft darkly comedic examination of mortality and morality and I think it’s a lot funnier than people are giving it credit for. Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore are a truly wonderful pairing - they feel like such warm old friends reconnecting under such strange circumsta...
