How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
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?
Release Date
April 5, 1991Runtime
100 minGenres
ComedyDirected by
Ana BelénScreenplay by
Carmen Rico-GodoyLanguage
Spanish; CastilianBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Carmen Maura
CarmenAntonio Resines
AntonioCarmen Conesa
CheloJuanjo Puigcorbé
MarianoMiguel Rellán
AlfredoTina Sainz
EmilaAsunción Balaguer
Madre de AntonioEnriqueta Carballeira
PepitaMercedes Lezcano
PilarJuan Gea
GinecólogoMiguel Arribas
CarlosFrancisco Casares
DirectorMercedes Resino
Juan Diego Botto
SergioGabriel Garbisu
Paula Soldevila
Alicia Mohino
Jorge Roelas
MensajeroPaloma Cela
Luis Perezagua
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