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 the age of 75, he’s contemplating death itself.

Not even an iconic aesthete such as Almodóvar’s can run away from the fact that his first full-length English-language screenplay plays it all far too straight

Tilda Swinton reunites with Spain’s formidable auteur Pedro Almodóvar for the deeply dramatic look at friendship and mortality that is “The Room Next Door.”

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.