The Room Next Door

Martha is ill and asks an old friend, Ingrid, to stay in the next room of a rented house while she decides how her life ends. Almodóvar, working in English, keeps the request plain and the rooms bright. Tilda Swinton plays Martha’s clarity. Julianne Moore’s Ingrid is a writer who is afraid of death and agrees anyway. The Sony Pictures Classics trailer is the pink door and the woods. The film is a friendship being asked to do one specific thing, and the legal weather around that thing.