How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

Apr 5, 1991

1h 40m

★ 5.8

Overview

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Iberoamericana Films Producción

Atrium Producciones

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Cast

Carmen

Carmen Maura

Antonio

Antonio Resines

Chelo

Carmen Conesa

Mariano

Juanjo Puigcorbé

Alfredo

Miguel Rellán

Emila

Tina Sainz

Madre de Antonio

Asunción Balaguer

Pepita

Enriqueta Carballeira

Pilar

Mercedes Lezcano

Ginecólogo

Juan Gea

Carlos

Miguel Arribas

Director

Francisco Casares

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