Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has a small, ensemble cast with many featured roles for women. The upbeat, memorable score is great for trained singers, giving many actors an opportunity to shine. Perfect for companies looking for a zany, contemporary show with a built-in fan base. Full Synopsis Materials and Orchestration.
His new Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, his seventh feature (since 1980), is one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies. Pepa (Carmen Maura), an actress who works in TV and commercials, and does dubbing, turns on her answering machine and learns that she has been jilted. Infuriated at the way her long-time live-in lover.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film made immediately after the stunning two-fisted provocation of Matador and Law of Desire, is a frothy gem, praiseworthy for the fact that it steps back from its potential and easily effected seriousness. It treats melodrama as a point departure, lightly alluding to its conventions as a road.
Not only does Broken Embraces double itself and repeat the earlier Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, it's also a film concerned with doubles and with repetition — whether in Ernesto Martel Jr's duplication of his father's obsessive behaviour or in the figure of the two main characters, themselves doubles with two names apiece.And like much of Almodovar's previous work, it's also a.
Vibrant but with undercurrents of social abjection sublimated but not eliminated beneath social decorum, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is probably best described as a farcical treatment of the melodrama of the unknown woman genre (insofar as one can describe Almodovar’s whirlwind of inspirations and feelings without befriending a.