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I'm Terry Gross.

My guest, Tilda Swinton, stars in a new, beautiful movie called The Room Next Door.

She plays a war correspondent who has dodged death several times.

Now she has cancer, for which she's received harsh

treatments, including in clinical trials. But the cancer progresses. She's rejecting more

treatment, refusing to continue suffering, and has decided it's time to end her life. The film is

about suffering and death and choice, but it's a beautiful film because of the

sometimes poetic dialogue, the emotional depth, the relationship between the two men

characters, and the contrast between Swinton's ghostly presence in the film, and the vibrant,

color-saturated world around her, including the clothes, the walls, and the furniture,

and the woods. It's a form of beauty and contrast I've come to expect from the film's writer

and director Pedro Almodovar. He's Spanish, and this is his first English-language feature film.

Tilda Swinton started off in the film Avant-garde. She made several films with the director

Derek Jarman, including her first film, Caravaggio, and never expected, or maybe never even sought

commercial success. But she got it anyway. Many filmgoers were introduced to her in the title role of

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