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,

Not even an iconic aesthete such as Almodóvar’s can run away from the fact that his first full-length English-language screenplay plays it all far too straight

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.”

The Westfield police station plays the Lake Hill, New York police station in the story, which also stars Emmy winner John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola in smaller, supporting roles. This past spring, Moore was seen filming scenes in Westfield with Turturro.

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.