Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, feature film, Spain, 1988

DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

CAST:
Carmen Maura (Pepa),
Antonio Banderas (Carlos),
Julieta Serrano (Lucía),
María Barranco (Candela),
Rossy de Palma (Marisa)

SCRIPT:
Pedro Almodóvar

PHOTOGRAPHY:
José Luis Alcaine

MUSIC:
Bernardo Bonezzi

EDITING:
José Salcedo

Synopsis:
Pepa’s lover has left her and she wants to kill herself. Her plan is to eat gazpacho in which she has put enough sleeping pills to ensure a painless and certain death. Soon, a friend shows up at her door because the police are after her and her boyfriend. Pepa wants to help her friend and asks advice of an attorney who is, purely by chance, the new lover of Pepa’s ex boyfriend.

color, comedy, 88'

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