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

Spain's Pedro Almodovar won Venice's Golden Lion award 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 Almodovar's first English-language feature-length film. In the film — which like many of Almodovar's hinges on strong female characters — Swinton plays a war correspondent suffering from terminal cancer.

She asks her friend, played by Moore, to be at her side when she takes her own life..