Everyone's sleeping with everyone else's spouse and divorce isn't even legal yet—¡vaya lío!
Pepe, married to Amparo has fallen madly in love with Mónica, who happens to be the wife of his best friend Luis. Love affairs abound in this screwball comedy in which everyone is unhappy with their respective marriages and dream of the then imminent approval of divorce in Spain .
Acting
José Sacristán's magnificent midlife crisis face
Costume
Peak 1980s Spanish bourgeois fashion crimes
Writing
Razor-sharp dialogue about wanting what you can't have
Director
Pedro Masó
Amparo Soler Leal
Amparo
José Luis López Vázquez
Luis Vázquez
José Sacristán
Pepe Rodríguez
Beatriz Escudero
Mónica Randall
Mónica
Amparo Baró
Paquita
Agustín González
Gregorio
María Kosty
Merche
Florinda Chico
Carmen
Guillermo Marín
Notario
Luis Escobar
Vecino
Alberto Closas
Pedrizosa
Alfred Lucchetti
Martín
Francisco Cecilio
Félix Salvador
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months before Spain's 1981 divorce law finally passed, making it essentially a cultural time capsule of pent-up frustration.
Pedro Masó was notorious for commercial comedies that sneaked social commentary past Franco-era censors; this was his most overtly subversive.
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