She doesnt want anyone to endanger themselves by helping her to die.
She just wants company: someone to sleep in the room next door.
Even the snow falling on New York is bright pink.
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in ‘The Room Next Door.‘Venice Film Festival
On the contrary,The Room Next Doornever feels confined.
But it also has to do with Almodovars sense of pictorial composition.
There are lots of ways to live inside a tragedy, she chides him.
He regards her with a mix of affection and disbelief.
This is what he admired in her, he says.
Youre one of the only people who knows how to suffer without making others feel guilty about it.
Martha told her simply that she was stronger than she thought she was.
When the day of reckoning came, she would discover that.
With any luck, it may even have helped Pedro Almodovar feel better about things.
