Five years on, at the age of 75, he’s contemplating death itself. 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,

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.”

In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first English-language feature film, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author who’s just written a book about death. She’s at a book signing in New York when she hears that an old friend,

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.