Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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| German title | Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown | ||
| Original title | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | ||
| Country of production | Spain | ||
| original language | Spanish | ||
| Publishing year | 1988 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Pedro Almodovar | ||
| script | Pedro Almodovar | ||
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Agustín Almodóvar , Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Llorens |
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| music | Bernardo Bonezzi | ||
| camera | José Luis Alcaine | ||
| cut | José Salcedo | ||
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Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (Original title: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios ) is a Spanish feature film from 1988 . The tragicomedy was directed by Pedro Almodóvar , who also wrote the screenplay based on a script by French author Jean Cocteau . The main role was played by Carmen Maura .
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The actress and voice actress Pepa is left by her lover Iván, who is also a voice actor. After avoiding contact with her at work and announcing that he would leave the city via a message on her answering machine, Pepa tries, believing that he has returned to his wife Lucía, to establish contact with him through her. She sees Iván's son Carlos for the first time and realizes that Iván has not returned to his wife. Pepa is devastated and feels betrayed because Iván never told her about him.
Back home, Pepa finds countless messages from her friend Candela on her answering machine. Angry that Iván didn't leave a message, she throws the phone through a window. Shortly afterwards, Pepa is visited by her friend Candela, who is on the run from the police because her boyfriend has turned out to be a Shiite terrorist and she is afraid of being accused as an alleged accomplice. Carlos and his snobbish girlfriend Marisa, who are interested in the apartment as a new tenant, also come into the apartment shortly afterwards and witness how Candela tries to kill herself by jumping off the terrace. While Pepa and Carlos try to calm Candela down, Marisa drinks a Gazpacho , which Pepa had put sleeping pills and which was originally intended for Iván, and is incapacitated.
When Pepa visits lawyer Paulina Morales to ask her help for Candela, she finds out that she is Iván's new friend and that she wants to travel to Stockholm with him . At the same time, Candela Carlos reveals that she knows that the terrorists want to hijack this plane. Carlos calls the police, believing that if he hangs up quickly enough they won't be able to trace the call. When Pepa comes back to her apartment, she finds out that Iván has called. She learns from Carlos that shortly after Iván left her, his mother was put by him in a sanatorium from which she was recently released. Angry, she throws Iván's suitcase in the trash, narrowly missing both him and Paulina. Iván leaves her a goodbye message on the answering machine, which enrags her so much that she throws the device out of the window and directly at Paulina's car.
Shortly afterwards, Lucía, a telephone technician who was supposed to repair the broken phone, and two policemen who are looking for the anonymous caller appear in the apartment. To protect Candela, who is slowly losing her nerve, Pepa distributes the staggered gazpacho to everyone and lets them fall asleep. Lucia takes the opportunity and steals the police officers' weapons in order to threaten Pepa with them. It turns out that Lucia only faked her mental recovery to get revenge on Iván. She drives to the airport to try to murder Iván and kidnaps a motorcyclist for it. Pepa and her neighbor Ana, the motorcyclist's friend, follow them, and they and the Mambo taxi driver (who has already driven Pepa around several times in the past few days) to Barajas Airport , where Pepa can thwart the attack at the last second.
Iván is then ready to talk to Pepa, but she has come to the conclusion that it is not worth running after him and leaves him. Finally, when Pepa returns to her devastated apartment, Pepa reveals to Marisa, who has just woken up, that she is pregnant and would rather not give up the apartment. The view is just so beautiful.
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Dieter Krusche describes the film in Reclam's film guide as “a noisy, shrill comedy that lives unabashedly by the law of chance. ... Almodóvar does not pretend to depict reality, but instead creates its own unmistakable reality that appears nightmarish in a pleasurable way. "
For the lexicon of international films , women on the verge of a nervous breakdown is a "farcical, frivolous and humorous over-the-top love and situation comedy whose extreme rhythm can be more enjoyable than the satirical substance."
Awards
At the Venice International Film Festival in 1988, Almodóvar won the Golden Osella for best screenplay. At the Toronto International Film Festival in the same year he received the audience award.
At the Goya Awards in 1989 , the presentation of the most important Spanish film prize, the film received awards in the categories of Best Film , Best Original Screenplay , Best Lead Actress (Carmen Maura), Best Editing and Best Supporting Actress ( María Barranco ). He was also in the categories of Best Director , Best Producer , Best Cinematography , Best Mask , Best Costumes , Best Production Design , Best Film Music , Best Sound , Best Visual Effects ( Reyes Abades ), Best Supporting Actor ( Guillermo Montesinos ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Julieta Serrano ) nominated. Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura won the Fotogramas de Plata Prize, while María Barranco and Chus Lampreave were also nominated . María Barranco was also nominated for the Sant Jordi Award and, like Rossy de Palma , for the Premio ACE .
At the Academy Awards in 1989 , the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film , but Bille Augusts Pelle, the Conqueror, had to admit defeat. In the same year, the film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film . In 1990, he received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Non-English Language Film . The David di Donatello won Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for Best Foreign Film . At the presentation of the European Film Awards in 1988, the film was named Best Young Film and Carmen Maura was named Best Actress . The Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani awarded Almodóvar with the Silver Ribbon as the best foreign director. The National Society of Film Critics of the USA honored him with a special price ( Special Award ). The US National Board of Review honored women on the verge of a nervous breakdown with the NBR Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Trivia
In the German dubbed version of the film, the gazpacho , which is actually important for the plot, is referred to as carpaccio .
Web links
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for women on the verge of a nervous breakdown . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 61 174 DVD).
- ↑ a b on the verg at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed October 27, 2014
- ↑ a b [1] at Metacritic , accessed on October 27, 2014
- ↑ Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Dieter Krusche: Reclams Filmführer , 12th, revised edition, Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010518-8
- ↑ Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam, Nils Daniel Peiler: Film in the transfer process: transdisciplinary studies on film synchronization . Schüren Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7410-0030-0 ( google.de [accessed on January 13, 2020]).