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Carmen Maura and Julieta Serrano in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Carmen Maura: Pepa

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Carmen Maura credited as playing...

Pepa

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  • Pepa: Hello. I'm the mother of the notorious Crossroads Killer. When my son comes home after one of his famous crimes, his clothes are just filthy.
  • [Pepa holds up a bloody shirt. The police arrive]
  • Policía I: Where are the clothes your son wore...
  • Policía II: At the time of the murder?
  • [Pepa takes a clean shirt out of the dryer]
  • Pepa: Right here. Sparkling clean.
  • Policía I: No trace of blood.
  • Policía II: Or guts.
  • Policía I: Unbelievable!
  • [Pepa holds up a box of detergent]
  • Pepa: Ecce Homo. It's unbelievable.
  • Iván: How many men have you had to forget?
  • Pepa: As many as the women you remember.
  • Policía I: What's going on?
  • Pepa: Nothing. Just discussing the lady's dress.
  • Candela: [in tears] It's awful!
  • Carlos: It's only a dress.
  • Candela: But it's awful!
  • Pepa: You could have killed yourself!
  • Candela: That was the idea. I'm desperate.
  • Pepa: So am I, but I don't jump off terraces.
  • Candela: I didn't know where to go. I couldn't face my folks. It's bad enough that I became a model.
  • Pepa: Follow that cab!
  • Cabdriver: I thought this only happened in the movies.
  • Pepa: That lady is dangerous.
  • Cabdriver: No lady's dangerous if you know how to handle her.
  • Pepa: I'm sick of being good.
  • Pepa: For two days everyone has been saying no to me. Now it's my turn to say no.
  • Ana: I'm fed up. I'm gonna get myself some quick cash, buy myself his bike and split. With a bike, who needs a man?
  • Pepa: Learning mechanics is easier than learning male psychology. You can figure out a bike, but you can never figure out a man.
  • Carlos: [Carrying Marisa, who has passed out, onto the patio] But a minute ago...
  • Pepa: A minute ago she wanted to go home but since you ignored her, she got depressed and had some gazpacho.
  • Carlos: Ah. That made her fall asleep?
  • Pepa: Yes. It was spiked with barbiturates. Sorry.
  • Carlos: [after finding out the gazpacho is spiked with morphine] Why did you do that? Were you trying to kill yourself too?
  • Pepa: No. It was for your dad. He loves gazpacho.
  • Carlos: What happened?
  • Pepa: She fell asleep.
  • Candela: So suddenly?
  • Pepa: Yes. The strangest things can happen suddenly.
  • Paulina Morales: She must turn herself in, go to jail, and let the jury decide her case.
  • Pepa: I don't understand.
  • Paulina Morales: She's committed a crime.
  • Pepa: Her only crime was falling in love and being afraid. I'd do the same.
  • Paulina Morales: I'm sure.
  • Pepa: Did Iván call again?
  • Secretaria: No. Forget him, honey.
  • Pepa: I'm working on it.
  • Candela: Three months ago, I spent a weekend with a guy. I didn't know his name or anything, but, after he left, I couldn't get him out of my mind.
  • Pepa: What happened that weekend?
  • Candela: Nothing special. We fucked the whole weekend. Just thinking about it gives me goose bumps. It was like a revelation. Like making love for the first time. I loved it.
  • Pepa: Sex means a lot at your age.
  • Candela: Because he's like a terrorist, he's more intense than other guys.
  • Pepa: We'll come back in a week. You'll go to to court and tell everything, except for the fucking, and that'll be that.
  • Lucía: [on the phone] How dare you call here!
  • Pepa: Don't yell at me. I just had a fainting spell.
  • Lucía: I don't care if you drop dead!
  • Pepa: Look, Iván and I are finished.
  • Lucía: Fuck off!
  • Pepa: Fuck off yourself!
  • Secretaria: You're making a fool of yourself.
  • Pepa: Well, a little more won't hurt.
  • Pepa: Bring me my tranquilizers from the kitchen.
  • Pepa: Young people don't know how to fight for things. You think life is all pleasure. Well, it isn't. You have to suffer a lot.

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