How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
5.8
|Comedy
1991-04-05
100 mins
The 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?
Cast and Crew
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
Mercedes Lezcano
Pilar
Juan Gea
Ginecólogo
Miguel Arribas
Carlos
Francisco Casares
Director
Paco Aguilar
Federico
José María Cañete
Maitre
Begoña Valle
Margarita
Flora María Álvaro
Tere
Mercedes Resino
Víctor García León
Diego
Juan Diego Botto
Sergio
Olalla Aguirre
Marta
Gabriel Garbisu
Paula Soldevila
Alicia Mohino
Jorge Roelas
Mensajero
Juan Luis Iborra
Mariano Gracia
Paloma Cela
Pablo Carrión
Pepe
Gabriel Jiménez
Olaizola
Angélica Revert
Topless Girl
Luis Perezagua
Manolo (uncredited)
José Carlos Plaza
Pepe (uncredited)