I'm a huge fan of the American musical remake, YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942) with Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, and Adolphe Menjou, and it came as a rather pleasant surprise that it was a remake of a film that came out the year before. And in watching it, it does not disappoint in the slightest. The plot is the same (I'll keep this spoiler-free): a straight-laced girl is disillusioned with the men around her, but has dreams of tender romance, and it's not until her father secretly takes some rather presumptuous action that her eyes are opened and she can experience the love of her dreams. I only saw a poor version online and used my passable Spanish to follow the movie, but even so, I found it both very funny and very smartly written. The cinematography and editing emphasize the brilliant comedy, and as with the best of classic comedy films, there's never any cue for you to laugh because it happens so naturally. For me, the star of the show was Enrique Serrano, who plays the father surrounded by his whole family of women, often being confronted by them, and I think he's every bit as good as the great Adolphe Menjou of the sequel, but Juan Carlos Thorry and Mirtha Lengrand certainly pulled their weight too. This is a true gem of classic Argentinian cinema, and classic cinema in general, and it very much deserves a Blu-ray release and rediscovery - I would be first in line to preorder.
