Reviews

Well, this film is very dramatic and very intimate. You may not love the plot, but you may love and admire the voice of Sarita Montiel - "our everything". She is quite outstanding in this movie, although, in my opinion, "Serenade" (1956) is a greater one. Please listen to Sara's velvety, low, very womanly voice, and please remember it in your heart. She is a woman that takes you away to the other, much more beautiful world, with only a modulation in her voice, with only a movement of her brows and eyes. Listen to her, watch her. And note the scene, closer to the final, in which she loses her lover and returns to the Chantecler, - watch now teared playbills swaying at the wind from the sea... This is the REAL ART of cinema. Enjoy "La Reina del Chantecler" and "Serenade", these are among of the greatest pictures ever filmed.

Well, I'd like to say that I've seen this film, "Serenade", for not so long time ago - just yesterday. It was dubbed into Russian pretty good. There's a TV channel in Russia called "Culture", and TV programs and films goes there WITHOUT ANY ADDS! Can you imagine it? I can! So, yesterday I've made a very good tape record of "Serenade" (on VHS, NOT SVHS, tape recorder), and I'd like to say a few words on this film. When I watched it for the first time (now it was for the third time), it hasn't made anything to me, that is, I thought the film is good and that's all. But now I think that it is not all. I can tell you that yesterday I hardly could help... crying! Yes, that's it! Because there was Mario Lanza and there certainly was Sara Montiel, the most beautiful woman in the world. If it happened that you haven't seen this film yet, please, watch it! What for? I beg you pardon, if you don't like Mario's singing(!), just watch it to enjoy Sara, her voice and her eyes. Remember NOT TO MISS the scene in the final, in which Sara plays just... so fine that you cannot believe your eyes and your ears. But don't worry about her - she would be all right! There is also a lot of high-class music (not only fascinating Othello's aria from Verdi's opera worths mentioning!). In all aspects, this is indeed one of the best film of all movies of all times and peoples. If I could give it 1,000 - I would, but I can give 10 maximum... Just so fine that you cannot believe yourself! (I'm deeply sorry for my bad English.)