Room Next Door, The

[Opens Jan. 17 in theaters.] Pedro Almodóvar's compelling, painful, realistic, well-acted, heartbreaking, star-studded (John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Melina Matthews, and Juan Diego Botto), 110-minute film based on Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through and highlighted by terrific photography in which a successful novelist (Julianne Moore) reconnects in New York City with a former colleague (Tilda Swinton) who is nearing death with terminal cancer, worked as a war reporter, and asks her friend to accompany her to an idyllic country home where she intends to commit suicide.
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