“I was very moved by them,” he continued. “Sometimes actors just play themselves telling the story of a movie.”

Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton says it’s in the director’s inimitable style.

Pedro Almodóvar usually knows just how to deploy melodrama to heighten his work. His Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton drama feels misjudged.

Tilda Swinton Says A Terminally Ill Friend Changed Her Attitude Towards Life In Pedro Almodvars The Room Next Door, Tilda Swinton stars as a terminally ill woman who chooses to take control of her own end.