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A choral and fun movie depicting various couples through several loving actions and their jobs
ma-cortes18 July 2022
Although the main center of the plot results to be the problematic relationship between two endearing boyfriends . Entertaining, light choral romantic comedy without too many pretensions . Serving the customers of a department store : Galerias Preciados (many years later would go bankrupt and bought by Ruiz Mateos) , the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Galerias Preciados was a successful commercial place with a lot of salegirls while they intend to marry a handsome man , and there are several suitors : Fernando Fernán Gómez, Tony Leblanc, Leo Anchoriz, or Antonio Ozores. Ana (Analia Gadé) is in love with Juan Ferrandis (Fernando Fernán Gómez) , who seems to be very well in his condition of single. Olga (Vicky Lagos) has aspirations of the highest level , as her boyfriend must own a great car but but she has to settle for going with her fiancé (Antonio Ozores) in a simple moto Vespa , eventually she meets a cabman (Tony Leblanc) who goes after her . Pilar (Lucía Prado) aims to win a radio contest and falls in love for Carlos (Leo Anchóriz) . And there is also Álvaro, the botcher advocate at law (José Luis López Vázquez) whose only cause capable of defending, and even with a resounding failure, is the freedom of his friend, the irreducible bachelor Juán .

Amusing , but average comedy about some young women , his jobs as salesgirls The blue of the leading girls is their work uniform at Galerías Preciados, a commercial place where several friends share longings and hardships while they intend to marry a handsome man, including top-notch actors such as Analía Gadé, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Tony Leblanc, Licia Calderón , Antonio Ozores , José Luis López Vázquez. The film contrasts the wedding wishes of the leading women with the joy of being single for the men , and crosses various relationships in a way that is as superficial and predictable The picture is agile and friendly, highlighting the bond between Antonio Ozores and Vicky Lagos with some funny situations , as resulting to be pursued by a pair of traffic motorist policemen while a Vespa ride . Situations of comedy and drama are alternated with a magnificent main and secondary cast, as the chief diversion is to guess which next character to appear here and there . The film depicts the Franco epoch and the dictatorship society , but no politic satire but costumbrism or social habits . It has very local aspects of the old Spanish society , concerning the necessity to marry , a traditional way of living , religious moral, sexual repression , among others . It is a so-so Spanish comedy that offers no intellectual stimulus whatsoever , though it has some fun and hilarious moments .This hilarious as well as average romantic comedy is full of humor , absurd scenes , and narrating the traditional Spanish society in which ruled a dictatorship with modernity. It is a simple , and humorous portrait of a time when the Spanish people live in the late Fifties , including the consuming society and a very slight opening to freer and more permissive societies . There are several topics in this film , though many of them we can find in current societies with certain parallelism in a traditional way of life .

It has a pleasant aesthetic full of light and color with stupendous photography in Technicolor and in filmscope by Manuel Merino. As well as atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Antón Garcia Abril. The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Pedro Lazaga who made various comedies and this was one of his greatest boxoffice hits and rightly so . Lazaga was a prolific and underrated filmmaker with whom Paco made nine films , all of them finely acted by this great artist . Lazaga directed a great number of films of all kinds of genres with especial penchant for comedies , such as : La Patrulla de los Once , Los Tramposos, Sabían Demasiado , El Vikingo , No Firmes más Letras Cielo, Vente a Ligar al Oeste , Hasta Matrimonio nos Separe , Fulanita y sus Menganos, La Amante Perfecta , Vota a Gundisalvo , No desearas la mujer de tu projimo, Terapia al Desnudo, Tres Suecas para 3 Rodriguez , 5 Almohadas para una noche , Yo soy Fulana de tal , En La Cresta de la Ola and many others . But Lazaga also directed wartime genre as El frente infinito, Torrepartida , Cuerda de Presos , La Patrulla and Peplum : Seven Spartans and Drama : Apendiendo a morir , La frontera del miedo , Hombre acosado , Campo Bravo , among others . Directing a number of Paco Martínez Soria vehicles, in the following ones : La Ciudad no es para mi, Abuelo Made in Spain, or Old made in Spain , Padre de la Criatura , Alegre Divorciado, Estoy Hecho un Chaval, Vaya Par de Gemelos . Las muchachas de azul (1957)rating 5.5/10 . The picture will appeal to Spanish cinema fans .
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