How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

Overview

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

Antonio Resines

Antonio

Carmen Conesa

Chelo

Juanjo Puigcorbé

Mariano

Miguel Rellán

Alfredo

Tina Sainz

Emila

Asunción Balaguer

Madre de Antonio

Enriqueta Carballeira

Pepita

Mercedes Lezcano

Pilar

Juan Gea

Ginecólogo

Miguel Arribas

Carlos

Francisco Casares

Director