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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

1988

Pedro Almodóvar

Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma ...

7.0

51,641

Comedy. Drama A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities...

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'In Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown', Mr. Almodovar sets out to charm rather than shock. That he succeeds should not come as a surprise."	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"A love letter to cinema and post-Franco Spain (...) [It] is an ebullient comedy propelled at a manic clip, drenched in colors so rich they seem edible (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A feminist comedy with real bite; it always brings down the house. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"'Women' slinks devilishly (and expertly) between farce, absurdism and tragedy. [It] is a perfectly realized work by a man of demonic wit and tender sensibility."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"An explosion of garish colour, wacky detail and surreal complications, Almodovar's very funny, urban comedy overflows with the unexpected. See it! (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A fiendish comedy full of prickles and pain and the bright shiny pinks of a matador's cape."	POS

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