ill person chooses the time of their dying, is the subject of oscar—winning spanish director pedro almodovarda swinton plays martha... grunts in frustration. ..a journalist with incurable cancer. and julianne moore is the friend, ingrid, who is asked to accompany her on what martha wants to be her final journey. i'll sleep with my door open, and the day that you find it closed is the day it's already happened. the story confronts the certainty of death, something that in real life, the 75—year—old director says he's wrestling with. i think of death almost every day. i don't really accept it with my mind. it's difficult for me to even... we have examples every day, thousands of examples, i mean, but, no, i have a problem with mortality. it's the first time he's worked in the english language in his 50—yearfilm career. with julianne moore and tilda swinton, they really helped me a lot with the language, and also they were very easy to direct. so, no, the problem, it was not the language. but you know that, you know, every movie, every shooting is a big problem, so everything can be wrong, but