How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
1991Carmen, 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?
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Carmen Maura
as Carmen
Antonio Resines
as Antonio
Carmen Conesa
as Chelo
Juanjo Puigcorbé
as Mariano
Miguel Rellán
as Alfredo
Tina Sainz
as Emila
Asunción Balaguer
as Madre de Antonio
Enriqueta Carballeira
as Pepita
Mercedes Lezcano
as Pilar
Juan Gea
as Ginecólogo
Miguel Arribas
as Carlos
Francisco Casares
as Director
Paco Aguilar
as Federico
José María Cañete
as Maitre
Begoña Valle
as Margarita
Flora María Álvaro
as Tere
Mercedes Resino
Víctor García León
as Diego
Juan Diego Botto
as Sergio
Olalla Aguirre
as Marta
Gabriel Garbisu
Paula Soldevila
Alicia Mohino
Jorge Roelas
as Mensajero
Juan Luis Iborra
Mariano Gracia
Paloma Cela
Pablo Carrión
as Pepe
Gabriel Jiménez
as Olaizola
Angélica Revert
as Topless Girl
Luis Perezagua
as Manolo (uncredited)
José Carlos Plaza
as Pepe (uncredited)
David San José
as Chipi (uncredited)