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Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
(Women on the verge of a nervous
breakdown)
1988 -
Spain
- 88 min. -
Feature, Color
Director:
Pedro Almodóvar
Cast:
Carmen Maura,
Antonio Banderas,
Fernando Guillén,
Julieta Serrano,
Maria Barranco,
Rossy de Palma.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.:
Spanish
/ Sub. in English
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
Though the kinky characters and aberrant social
behavior common to the works of Spanish director
Pedro Almodovar
are very evident in his
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at base a
door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant
actress Carmen
Maura is the "Grand Central Station" setpiece for this dizzying tale.
Distraught over her recent breakup with her lover,
Carmen
prepares to overdose on sleeping pills, which she blends into a gazpacho so
they'll go down easier. She is diverted from her suicide by her best friend
Maria Barranco,
a fugitive from justice (her boy friend is a Shi'Ite terrorist) who needs a
place to stay. Later, when
Carmen's
apartment is empty, her ex-lover's grown son (Antonio
Banderas) comes to the apartment with his wife (Rossy
de Palma) in answer to
Carmen's
"room to let" newspaper ad. The wife inadvertently ingests
Carmen's
"pill sauce," and as she blissfully snoozes, the husband inaugurates an affair
with Carmen's
friend Barranco.
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