Almodóvar wins top Venice prize for end-of-life film

Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar won Venice’s Golden Lion award on Saturday for his pro-euthanasia film The Room Next Door, with the acting prizes going to Nicole Kidman and Frenchman Vincent Lindon.The female friendship end-of-life film starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore was Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film.In the film − which like many of Almodóvar’s hinges...