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THE ROOM NEXT DOOR: ALMODÓVAR’S AMBITIOUS, YET UNEVEN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DEBUT
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (La habitación de al lado) marks his ambitious English-language debut but falters in delivering the emotional depth and narrative strength of his earlier works. While Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore shine with extraordinary performances, the film’s exploration of euthanasia feels restrained, with artificial dialogue and a lack of genuine reflection. A poignant quote from James Joyce—“... the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead”—highlights the fleeting beauty of the film but also its inability to fully connect with its profound themes.