How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)
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?
Director:
Ana Belén
Writer:
Carmen Rico-Godoy
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Carmen Maura as Carmen |
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Antonio Resines as Antonio |
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Carmen Conesa as Chelo |
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Juanjo Puigcorbé as Mariano |
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Miguel Rellán as Alfredo |
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Tina Sainz as Emila |
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Asunción Balaguer as Madre de Antonio |
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Enriqueta Carballeira as Pepita |
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Mercedes Lezcano as Pilar |
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Juan Gea as Ginecólogo |
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Miguel Arribas as Carlos |
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Francisco Casares as Director |
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Paco Aguilar as Federico |
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José María Cañete as Maitre |
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Begoña Valle as Margarita |
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Flora María Álvaro as Tere |
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Mercedes Resino as |
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Víctor García León as Diego |
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Juan Diego Botto as Sergio |
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Olalla Aguirre as Marta |
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Gabriel Garbisu as |
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Paula Soldevila as |
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Alicia Mohino as |
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Jorge Roelas as Mensajero |
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Juan Luis Iborra as |
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Mariano Gracia as |
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Paloma Cela as |
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Pablo Carrión as Pepe |
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Gabriel Jiménez as Olaizola |
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Angélica Revert as Topless Girl |
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Luis Perezagua as Manolo (uncredited) |
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José Carlos Plaza as Pepe (uncredited) |
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David San José as Chipi (uncredited) |
| Directing | Ana Belén | Director |
| Writing | Carmen Rico-Godoy | Screenplay |
| Directing | Manuel Gómez Pereira | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Eugenia Cuesta | Script Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Juan Pedro Hernández | Makeup Designer |
| Sound | Gilles Ortion | Sound Director |
| Sound | Eduardo Fernández | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Juan Amorós | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Carmen Frías | Editor |
| Production | José G. Jacoste | Production Supervisor |
| Art | Gerardo Vera | Art Direction |
| Writing | Carmen Rico-Godoy | Novel |
| Production | Andrés Vicente Gómez | Producer |
