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

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

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.