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?

Cast

Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura

as Carmen

Antonio Resines

Antonio Resines

as Antonio

Carmen Conesa

Carmen Conesa

as Chelo

Juanjo Puigcorbé

Juanjo Puigcorbé

as Mariano

Miguel Rellán

Miguel Rellán

as Alfredo

Tina Sainz

Tina Sainz

as Emila

Asunción Balaguer

Asunción Balaguer

as Madre de Antonio

Enriqueta Carballeira

Enriqueta Carballeira

as Pepita

Mercedes Lezcano

Mercedes Lezcano

as Pilar

Juan Gea

Juan Gea

as Ginecólogo

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