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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: BFI Film Classics

01-Oct-96
80 pages
Published/distributed by BFI Publishing
ISBN/EAN: 9780851705408
Paperback
Price: £9.99
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: BFI Film Classics 
Evans, Peter William
Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study of sexual mores, the film has a central character, Pepa (Carmen Maura), as warm and richly drawn as any modern film heroine. Made strong and self-reliant by suffering within marriage, Pepa is the centre of a set of colourful characters which represents a vivid cross-section of Spanish society. Women on the Verge was a major international success for a director with a unique talent for exploring the naunces of individual behaviour.

Peter William Evans conducts a formidable analysis of Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity. Drawing on a wide range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, Evans sees Women on the Verge as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire, of the anxieties of relationships and families, but also of the possibilities or personal liberation. He discusses the recent history of Spain and ties the film's concerns into the social revolution which occurred after the death of Franco.
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