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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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Mon Sep 23, 7:30 pm at Vidiots Eagle Theater
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This madcap drama, with a whirling story of multiple women, their lovers, and some gazpacho laced with sleeping pills, is one of the greats from out Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. It's not one of his Queer films, but this is the film that put him on the map internationally.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Pedro Almodóvar
1988
88 min
Spain
Spanish
Movie Summary: 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.
Queer Film LA Says: This madcap drama, with a whirling story of multiple women, their lovers, and some gazpacho laced with sleeping pills, is one of the greats from out Spanish director Pedro Almod�var. It's not one of his Queer films, but this is the film that put him on the map internationally.

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