Acting
Carmen Maura's barely-contained panic is masterful.
Direction
Colomo's early signature: social comedy through frantic movement.
Costume
Late-70s Madrid fashion as character statement.

Director
Fernando Colomo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Spain's late-Franco transition, when divorce was newly legal and deeply stigmatized—Rosa's trapped energy mirrors a nation.
Colomo shot this in actual Madrid working-class neighborhoods; locals often didn't know they were in a film.
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