num_pages: 80
description: This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire.
language: English
title: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
titlecomplete: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
genres: Film
ratings_count: 26
series: BFI Film Classics
publisher: British Film Institute