Late last summer, the novelist Sigrid Nunez reflected on the upcoming adaptation of her book “What Are You Going Through,” about life, death and companionship, by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro ...

In 2019, the Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar addressed the indignities of age and creative drought in “Pain and Glory,” one of his richest and most personal films. Five years on, at ...

Now, in the midst of his seeming Blue period, the quintessentially Spanish filmmaker dawns a new era with his first English-language feature, The Room Next Door. The dialogue flows to a different ...

While Pedro Almodóvar was making “The Room Next Door,” a film very much concerned with mortality and what comes after this life, the 75-year-old Spanish director started noticing something ...

“As if we were on vacation,” she says. “The Room Next Door,” the title of which plays off Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” is about finding dignity and contentment with ...

Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. The two ...

The English-language debut from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is a disappointingly staid affair that can’t find life in ...

Is there something Almodóvar’s not telling us? Let’s hope not. And, on the strength of “The Room Next Door,” his talky yet emotionally and metaphysically bracing new drama, let’s hope ...