Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Pedro Almodóvar
Ivan and Pepa, two dubbing actors, have been lovers for many years. Pepa tries to get in touch with Ivan to tell him that she is pregnant, but he is getting ready to go off on a business trip. Pepa sees arriving at her door the whole of Ivan's family, including his wife…
With : Carmen Maura, Fernando Guillén, ]ulieta Serrano, Antonio Banderas, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Loles Leon, Chus Lampreave, Guillermo Montesinos, Francisca Caballero, Agustin Almodovar
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar
Image : José Luis Alcaine
Sound : Gilles Ortion
Editing : José Salcedo
Music : Bernardo Bonezzi
Decors : Félix Murcia
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar
Image : José Luis Alcaine
Sound : Gilles Ortion
Editing : José Salcedo
Music : Bernardo Bonezzi
Decors : Félix Murcia
Production : Laurenfilm, Deseo, El See
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
http://www.tamasadiffusion.com/
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
http://www.tamasadiffusion.com/
Already quoted in his previous film, La Voix humaine (The Human Voice), Cocteau's play in which a women is speaking on the phone to the man she loves, becomes a source of inspiration for Pedro Almodóvar's first big success (with more than 50 international prizes). The more Pepa tries to discover the truth about her lover, the more this story about a woman scorned becomes a supercharged vaudeville. This perfectly constructed comedy is reminiscent of both Feydeau and Cukor, as Thierry Jousse put it in 1989: “there is, in no particular order, American comedy, pop art, and Godard, as well as the boulevard, sitcoms and references to burning news, as if Almodóvar was playing with the whole spectrum of cinema, from the strictly to the laboriously trivial”.