Blake Edwards pergeña una comedia de enredo con el tema de la confusión de los sexos, vista en filmes como Con faldas y a lo loco, o en Shakespeare en la clásica "Noche de reyes". El film, que coincidió en 1982 con Tootsie, se erige sin ambages en reivindicación del estilo de vida gay. El director y guionista sabe contar la historia con cierta elegancia, y buenos gags, pero siempre con la intención señalada, lo que cansa un tanto. Henry Mancini compone una inspirada partitura, y sorprende Julie Andrews, esposa de Edwards en la vida real, con las notas graves que impone a sus canciones, que deben ocultar su condición femenina.
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole 'Toddy' Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second rate club named Chez Lui. To solve both their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy. That alter ego they decide is Polish Count Victor Grazinski, Toddy's ex-lover who was disowned by his family when they found out he was gay. The Count auditions for the city's leading agent, Andre Cassell, who...
"Divertida comedia musical, con el toque elegante de muchos de los filmes de Edwards. (...) Transformismo para un enredo simpático y muy agradable"
(Fernando Morales: Diario El País)
1982: Oscar: Mejor banda sonora adaptada. 7 nominaciones
Director: Blake Edwards
Intérpretes: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, John Rhys-Davies, Alex Karras, Graham Stark, Peter Arne
Guión: Blake Edwards
Música: Henry Mancini
Fotografía: Dick Bush
Año: 1982
País: EE.UU.
Duración: 130 min.
Género: Musical
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