Dealing with the lives of 3 singers (Lola Flores , Paquita Rico and Carmen Sevilla) during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony", the three want to marry wealthy men , but things go wrong . As Paquita Rica falls in love for good-looking Vicente (Manuel Monroy) but he results to be a thief , Lola Flores enamored an allegedly rich but ugly called Indalecio (Guillermo Marín) and Carmen Sevilla falls with aristocrat Domingo de Triana (Virgilio Teixeira) but is really in love for a simple guitarist , Rafael (Leo Anchóriz) .
So arduous were the struggles to set the conditions for the participation of each of these three artists in "El balcón de la luna" that to avoid fights for the head of the poster it was decided to set the name of the three in the form of a cross. All three had the exact same number of individual songs in the movie, and all three had the exact same number of close-ups . Between the charm of the copla , the heels on the tablao and the strumming of guitars, a slight plot slides over the screen to show off the three protagonists, Lola Flores, Carmen Sevilla and Paquita Rico perfectly fulfill their mission. It is a conventional but pleasant project, colourful, refreshing and full of good intentions whose cinematographic invoice is correct, without fanfare of any kind. The dramatic part of the screenplay falls on Paquita Rico ; Carmen Sevilla looks like aspiring to be the good girl, with a little bit of fluff even advanced for the time she was filmed ; Lola Flores assumes the role of the "ugly but funny" friend, bringing the film's amusement . The situations denote a certain ingenuity but the plots are resolved very much to the taste of the viewer of the middle of the last century, including the well-known morality. Of course , highlights of the movie are the popular songs , such as : Ay, qué calor! By Rafael de León and Maestro Manuel Quiroga performed by Paquita Rico, Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla . A tu vera by Rafael de León and Maestro Juan Solano performed by Lola Flores . Guitarras en la noche by G. Moreau , Joaquín Gasa and Maestro Augusto Algueró performed by Carmen Sevilla . El beso by Adrián Ortega and Fernando Moraleda performed by Paquita Rico . Con el carambí by Rafael de León and Maestro Juan Solano performed by Paquita Rico, Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla . Otra vez by Antonio Guijarro and Augusto Algueró performed by Carmen Sevilla. Doña Carlota by Antonio Quintero, Rafael de León and Manuel L. Quiroga performed by Lola Flores. Adios, marinero by Rafael de León and Maestro Fernando Moraleda performed by Paquita Rico
The motion picture was professionally directed by the Argentine Luis Saslavski , and it has success enough at boxoffice .Argentina-born Luis Saslavski film debut was 1935 Crimen a las 3 and La Fuga . Directing melodramas for Libertad Lamarque as Puerta Cerrada . Subsequently , he adapts Calderon de la Barca in La Dama Duende , making in Europe several films as La nieve estaba sucia , Las Lobas , Historia de una noche , the musical : El balcon de la luna with Folkloric stars : Lola Flores , Carmen Sevilla , Paquita Rico and the comedies Las mujeres los prefieren tontos , la industria del matrimonio , El faustino criollo , among others . And his best film was ¨La corona negra¨ with María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman , considered to be one of the strangest Spanish films. Rating : 5/10, essential and indispensable seeing for Folkloric fans .
So arduous were the struggles to set the conditions for the participation of each of these three artists in "El balcón de la luna" that to avoid fights for the head of the poster it was decided to set the name of the three in the form of a cross. All three had the exact same number of individual songs in the movie, and all three had the exact same number of close-ups . Between the charm of the copla , the heels on the tablao and the strumming of guitars, a slight plot slides over the screen to show off the three protagonists, Lola Flores, Carmen Sevilla and Paquita Rico perfectly fulfill their mission. It is a conventional but pleasant project, colourful, refreshing and full of good intentions whose cinematographic invoice is correct, without fanfare of any kind. The dramatic part of the screenplay falls on Paquita Rico ; Carmen Sevilla looks like aspiring to be the good girl, with a little bit of fluff even advanced for the time she was filmed ; Lola Flores assumes the role of the "ugly but funny" friend, bringing the film's amusement . The situations denote a certain ingenuity but the plots are resolved very much to the taste of the viewer of the middle of the last century, including the well-known morality. Of course , highlights of the movie are the popular songs , such as : Ay, qué calor! By Rafael de León and Maestro Manuel Quiroga performed by Paquita Rico, Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla . A tu vera by Rafael de León and Maestro Juan Solano performed by Lola Flores . Guitarras en la noche by G. Moreau , Joaquín Gasa and Maestro Augusto Algueró performed by Carmen Sevilla . El beso by Adrián Ortega and Fernando Moraleda performed by Paquita Rico . Con el carambí by Rafael de León and Maestro Juan Solano performed by Paquita Rico, Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla . Otra vez by Antonio Guijarro and Augusto Algueró performed by Carmen Sevilla. Doña Carlota by Antonio Quintero, Rafael de León and Manuel L. Quiroga performed by Lola Flores. Adios, marinero by Rafael de León and Maestro Fernando Moraleda performed by Paquita Rico
The motion picture was professionally directed by the Argentine Luis Saslavski , and it has success enough at boxoffice .Argentina-born Luis Saslavski film debut was 1935 Crimen a las 3 and La Fuga . Directing melodramas for Libertad Lamarque as Puerta Cerrada . Subsequently , he adapts Calderon de la Barca in La Dama Duende , making in Europe several films as La nieve estaba sucia , Las Lobas , Historia de una noche , the musical : El balcon de la luna with Folkloric stars : Lola Flores , Carmen Sevilla , Paquita Rico and the comedies Las mujeres los prefieren tontos , la industria del matrimonio , El faustino criollo , among others . And his best film was ¨La corona negra¨ with María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman , considered to be one of the strangest Spanish films. Rating : 5/10, essential and indispensable seeing for Folkloric fans .
