How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
- Original title
- Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento
- Year
- 1991
- Running time
- 89 min.
- Country
- Spain
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Carmen Rico-Godoy. Novel: Carmen Rico-Godoy
- Cast
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- Carmen Maura
- Antonio Resines
- Tina Sáinz
- Carmen Conesa
- Juanjo Puigcorbé
- Juan Diego Botto
- Víctor García León
- Miguel Rellán
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Synopsis
- 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?
- Awards
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1991: Goya Awards: 2 Nominations: Best Screenplay and Best New Director1991: Ondas Awards: Best Directing.
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