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 fearful Breakdown". It attracts on a variety of psychoanalytic and demanding techniques, and sees the movie as an account of the usually tyrannical spell of sexual desire.

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