Your wife stole your plays AND your muse? The drama writes itself.
After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
Writing
Script devours its own tail—plays about plays about stolen plays.
Acting
Emma Cohen's Carlota: deliciously unbothered by her husband's return.
Director
Antonio Drove
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Spain's transition to democracy, the film's theatrical world mirrors national anxieties about whose stories get told.
Director Antonio Drove reportedly cast his own wife, Emma Cohen, as Carlota—making the husband-wife creative rivalry uncomfortably autobiographical.
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