05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Pedro Almodóvar Confronts Death in ‘The Room Next Door' and ‘The Last Dream.'
At the age of 75, Pedro Almodóvar continues to experiment.
In the past year, the Spanish director has done two things he's never done before: He made his first English-language film, 'The Room Next Door, ' and he published 'The Last Dream,' a collection of writing, which he refers to not as a memoir but as a 'fragmentary autobiography.'
Both the film and the book point to a new chapter in Almodóvar's life and career. Nicholas Casey, a writer for The Times Magazine, spoke with the director about his relationship to aging and mortality, and his 'problem with death.'
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