The Room Next Door - Almodóvar - Thoughts?

I don't want to be mean to the director. I respect him and the actors greatly. I'm not sure I fully got it. Am I missing something? Was it only an absurdist exercise or was the dialogue sort of lost in translation?

For such heavy themes on euthanasia and terminal cancer it felt like absurdly wacky. Maybe I had a weird read on it but I was nonstop laughing for like 20 minutes. I almost walked out. I just couldn't take in the moribund tone and flat delivery.