Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (BFI Modern Classics)

By Peter William Evans

This textual content analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his movie "Women at the Verge of a apprehensive Breakdown". It attracts on quite a number psychoanalytic and important thoughts, and sees the movie as an account of the customarily tyrannical spell of sexual desire.

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