How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

100 mins | Comedy | April 5, 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?

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

100 mins | Comedy | April 5, 1991

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?
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers
Original title Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento
Directors Ana Belén
Writers Carmen Rico-Godoy

Cast

Carmen Maura

as Carmen

Antonio Resines

as Antonio

Carmen Conesa

as Chelo

Juanjo Puigcorbé

as Mariano

Miguel Rellán

as Alfredo

Tina Sainz

as Emila

Asunción Balaguer

as Madre de Antonio

Mercedes Lezcano

as Pilar

Juan Gea

as Ginecólogo

Miguel Arribas

as Carlos

Francisco Casares

as Director

Paco Aguilar

as Federico

Begoña Valle

as Margarita

Juan Diego Botto

as Sergio

Olalla Aguirre

as Marta

Jorge Roelas

as Mensajero

Pablo Carrión

as Pepe

Gabriel Jiménez

as Olaizola

Angélica Revert

as Topless Girl

Luis Perezagua

as Manolo (uncredited)

José Carlos Plaza

as Pepe (uncredited)

David San José

as Chipi (uncredited)