In Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door , Sex and Death Are in a Distinctly American Lockstep
In the first few minutes of The Room Next Door, director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English feature,, author Ingrid ( Julianne Moore) is signing books at Manhattan’s ritzy Rizzoli Bookstore when a reader prompts, “In the prologue, you say you wrote this book in order to better understand and accept death.”