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The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus will present 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' at 7 p.m. as part of its summer film series, 'a summer abroad: international film classics.' The 1988 film by Pedro Almodóvar, set in Spain, is described in the center’s listing as a “colorful fever dream of extramarital yearning” and the work that made Almodóvar a household name.
The screening is listed for July 30, 2026, with the event time shown as 7 p.m. in the center’s Film/Video Theater. The same email notice also promotes a separate ticketed component, a guided tasting in the Wexner Center café, for audience members who purchase a special ticket.
'Almodóvar’s 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' sits within a run of international film classics that the Wexner Center is presenting under the banner 'a summer abroad.' The same weekly notice also includes screenings of 'Viridiana' by Luis Buñuel and 'Daisies' by Věra Chytilová, indicating that the series draws on major works of European cinema rather than a single director or national tradition.
The source material positions the film as a landmark in Almodóvar’s career, without expanding beyond that claim. The focus of the listing is the movie’s heightened tone and reputation, framed by the center as an invitation to revisit a vivid late-1980s Spanish title in a theater setting rather than a standard repertory repeat.
The event is part of a broader weekly email from the Wexner Center for the Arts, which is located at The Ohio State University in Columbus. The newsletter also includes practical information about access, parking, and other site updates, but the film listing itself remains centered on the screening, its start time, and the option of the café tasting.
As presented in the notice, 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' will screen at the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Theater at 7 p.m., with the guided café tasting offered as an add-on for ticket holders.
