To the death so feared herein is Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door succumbed, being so lifeless, unnatural, mechanical, and much like death, wasting with frightful predictability.
Its action concerns Martha, a retired war reporter, undergoing experimental treatment for cancer leading to an afflicting failure. From her close friend Ingrid, a novelist terrified of death, lately met after a long separation, she requests a favour, merely of staying in a room next door, just so she would not be alone, when…
