Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown R
A comedy about someone you know
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
Also released as:
DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Carmen Maura & Antonio Banderas | |
Performer: | Fernando Guillén, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave & Rossy de Palma | |
Directed by | Pedro Almodóvar | |
Edited by | José Salcedo | |
Screenplay by | Pedro Almodóvar | |
Composition by | Bernardo Bonezzi | |
Produced by | Pedro Almodóvar | |
Director of Photography: | José Luis Alcaine | |
Executive Production by | Agustín Almodóvar |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A cleverly choreographed, slick and nicely observed comedy of manners...
Sight and Sound
Rating: A --
Almodovar's most accomplished and most commercially successful comedy to date.
Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
This is painless sexual politics, a fiendish comedy full of prickles and pain and the bright shiny pinks of a matador's cape.
Full Review
Washington Post
The movie is a great introduction to Almodóvar's world...
Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Probably Pedro Almodovar's most completely accessible film -- certainly it's one of his funniest and most popular works.
Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A film whose overwhelming liveliness provides an enthusiastic, ebullient rebuke to the despair of its characters.
Full Review
Alternate Ending
Rating: 5/5 --
The film's color scheme is like a makeup counter display, and the narrative has the same sort of spirit, with dabs of humor that gloss over or disrupt the heroine's grief.
DVDLaser
Product Description:
This colorful hit put director Pedro Almodóvar on the international map and cemented the reputation of its star, Carmen Maura. The film is a peppy little soap bubble as TV actress Pepa (Maura) wakes up to find a note from her lover, Ivan (Fernando Guillén), informing her he is leaving. Desperate to tell him some important information, Pepa almost kills herself with sleeping pills, burns her bed, and spends most of the movie trying to track him down. Her adventures put her in contact with Ivan's insane ex-wife (Julieta Serrano), his handsome son (Antonio Banderas), and the son's fiancée (Rossy de Palma). They all descend on her penthouse apartment in a deliriously comic extended scene, complicated by a pitcher full of narcotic gazpacho and her friend Candela (María Barranco), a ditzy beauty wanted by the police for associating with Shiite terrorists. Through it all, the indefatigable Pepa fights gallantly against her crushing heartbreak. As a testament to the resilient beauty of women, this free-spirited film rings true and is a treasure. Also appearing are Chus Lampreave, Kiti Manver, Yayo Calvo, and Guillermo Montesinos as the hilarious driver of the Mambo Taxi.
Keywords:
Product Info
- UPC: 043396332218
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item