How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

5.8 / 10

(17 votes)

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?

Country:

Spain

Genre:

Comedy

Duration:

100 minutes

Year:

1991

Director:

Ana Belén

Cast:
Carmen Maura

Carmen

Antonio Resines

Antonio

Carmen Conesa

Chelo

Juanjo Puigcorbé

Mariano

Miguel Rellán

Alfredo

Crew:
Ana Belén

Director

Carmen Rico-Godoy

Screenplay