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, 1991
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Ana Belén

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