Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her seminal essay A Room of One’s Own, published in 1929. She’s a notable reference point in The Room Next Door, the English language feature debut from Spain’s most iconoclastic auteur, Pedro Almodóvar. And it stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. Based on Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Through, the notion of spatial orientation is a prominent subtext in this story of two women who were friends and colleagues in their youth, reunited when one of them is entering their final stages of cervical cancer.… Read the rest
