unknowable

But its long-term impact on so-called legacy media, TV and movies was still unknowable.

“Again, this is kind of unknowable,” she said.

Instead of using the supernatural as an analogy for the unknowable weight of loss, the film is steeped in this burden.

“We believe the immediate and long-term impacts to the local entertainment economy from the fires will prove significant, but these are also unknowable at this time.”

That acceptance of the unknowable infuses “The Room Next Door,” Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and is one of his most melancholy yet quietly hopeful works.