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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?

1991 |1h 40m |  Comedy

Cast

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Carmen Maura

Carmen

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Antonio Resines

Antonio

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Carmen Conesa

Chelo

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Juanjo Puigcorbé

Mariano

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Miguel Rellán

Alfredo

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Tina Sainz

Emila

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Asunción Balaguer

Madre de Antonio

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Enriqueta Carballeira

Pepita

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Mercedes Lezcano

Pilar

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Juan Gea

Ginecólogo

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Miguel Arribas

Carlos

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Francisco Casares

Director

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Mercedes Resino

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Juan Diego Botto

Sergio

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Gabriel Garbisu

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Paula Soldevila

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Alicia Mohino

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Jorge Roelas

Mensajero

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Paloma Cela

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Luis Perezagua

Manolo (uncredited)

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Status

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Language

Spanish

Budget

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