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How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

Apr 5, 1991 · 1h 40m
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Comedy

PLOT

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?

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CAST

Carmen Maura
Carmen
Antonio Resines
Antonio
Carmen Conesa
Chelo
Juanjo Puigcorbé
Mariano
Miguel Rellán
Alfredo
Tina Sainz
Emila
Asunción Balaguer
Madre de Antonio
Enriqueta Carballeira
Pepita
Directed by Ana Belén

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Status
Released
Original language
ES
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Iberoamericana Films Producción, Atrium Producciones
Country
ES

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