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| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
Mirroring Hollywood comedies of the 1950s, this vivacious screwball comedy is often credited as the film that introduced Almodóvar to a larger, more mainstream audience.
Featuring a stellar cast, including Antonio Banderas as the bumbling son and Rossy De Palma as the narcotised virgin,
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has Carmen Maura in one of her most moving and comic performances as a woman pushed to the edge by a deceitful lover.
A fervent memoir to the strength and resilience of women, this critical and box office smash was Maura and Almodóvar's last collaboration before their recent reunion in
Volver.
