How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

1991/04/05 • Released • Spanish

Comedy
5.8
1h 40m

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?

Director : Ana Belén

Casts
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

Ginecólogo

Miguel Arribas

Miguel Arribas

Carlos

Francisco Casares

Francisco Casares

Director

Paco Aguilar

Federico

José María Cañete

Maitre

Begoña Valle

Margarita

Flora María Álvaro

Tere

Mercedes Resino

Mercedes Resino

Víctor García León

Diego

Juan Diego Botto

Juan Diego Botto

Sergio

Olalla Aguirre

Marta

Gabriel Garbisu

Gabriel Garbisu

Paula Soldevila

Paula Soldevila

Alicia Mohino

Alicia Mohino

Jorge Roelas

Jorge Roelas

Mensajero

Juan Luis Iborra

Mariano Gracia

Paloma Cela

Paloma Cela

Pablo Carrión

Pepe

Gabriel Jiménez

Olaizola

Angélica Revert

Topless Girl

Luis Perezagua

Luis Perezagua

Manolo (uncredited)

José Carlos Plaza

Pepe (uncredited)

David San José

Chipi (uncredited)

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