Antonieta is a 1982 film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, starring Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla.

The plot centers on the life of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who killed herself inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931.

She becomes fascinated by the story of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer and social activist who committed suicide inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

As a young woman, Antonieta married but later left her husband and fell madly in love with the painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano.

Still in love with the painter, Antonieta meets José Vasconcelos, a Mexican intellectual who is running for President of the country on the platform of offering education to the masses.

Diana Bracho was still in the project, but López Portillo decided to cast Isabelle Adjani in the leading role.