Nonton Film: 4203 women on the verge of a nervous breakdown 1988 Sub Indo

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Overview: Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma

Original Language: ES

Original Title: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

Budget: $700,000

Revenue: $14,979,298

MPAA Rating: PG

Keywords: infidelity, friendship, airport, madrid, spain, suicide attempt, pregnancy, female friendship, slapstick comedy, female protagonist, terrorism, relationship, nervous breakdown, ex-wife, mental health, criterion, sleeping pill, lies, independent film, apartment, actress, frustration

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Reviews

CinemaSerf (April 11, 2024)

"I was a virgin this morning, but I'm not sure now...". Well after ninety minutes of these shenanigans, I'm surprised she was even certain about the morning. The story follows actress "Pepa" (Carmen Maura) who is despondent after being left by boyfriend "Iván" (Fernando Guillén). Determined to find out why, and pregnant, she contacts his former wife "Lucia" (Julieta Serrano), herself fresh from a lengthy stint in a sanatorium and living with her rather geeky looking twenty-something son "Carlos" (Antonio Banderas) but they can't really shed much light on his behaviour either. Whilst all this is going on, a group of terrorists is believed to have carried out an atrocity in Madrid and it might be that her best friend "Candela" (Marisa Barranco) could be mixed up as she had them stay in her apartment for an evening of furious jogging - so now she's in hiding. With the media and the cops on the trail of the killers, Pedro Almodóvar now crams enough slapstick comedy into this to rival anything Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau ever did. There's nothing nor anybody left out - even a bleach blond gay guy and some ridiculous high heeled antics to keep the pace rocketing along til a denouement that closes the story, but that hardly matters. This is about the characters and both Maura and and Barranco are on entertaining form delivering a pithy and humorous script as the plot lurches from the daft to the dafter. Well worth a watch this.