How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

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Carmen Maura
Carmen Maura

Carmen

Antonio Resines
Antonio Resines

Antonio

Carmen Conesa
Carmen Conesa

Chelo

Juanjo Puigcorbé
Juanjo Puigcorbé

Mariano

Miguel Rellán
Miguel Rellán

Alfredo

Tina Sainz
Tina Sainz

Emila

Asunción Balaguer
Asunción Balaguer

Madre de Antonio

Enriqueta Carballeira
Enriqueta Carballeira

Pepita

Mercedes Lezcano
Mercedes Lezcano

Pilar

Juan Gea
Juan Gea

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    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

    1991-04-05

  • Average

    5.8

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
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