Your husband leaves you for a teenager? Time to become the main character.
Isabel suffers a disorder after learning that her husband, due to his immaturity, falls in love with a young teenager. She will try to get over it and with the little help of her daughter, a fanatical psychotherapist who only tortures her, she decides to start over and finally enjoy a new life. Something that will lead her to meet a true gentleman...
Acting
Victoria Abril carries every unhinged breakdown with grace.
Direction
Payas finds humor in the genuinely pathetic.
Director
Dolorès Payas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Victoria Abril was 50 playing this role and had recently divorced in real life, lending uncomfortable authenticity.
The film flopped in Spain partly for its blunt title—'Better Than Ever'—which critics called cruel optimism for a midlife crisis story.
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