Las cosas del querer

When the Spanish civil war ends, Mario, a homosexual singer, a pianist and his girlfriend Pepita come together to form a group, which will become famous throughout the entire Spain. The trio’s brilliant career takes them back to Madrid, where their worst moments will come; the Madrid aristocracy throws itself against Mario for his homosexual condition, while Pepita's mother conspires to separate her from her pianist boyfriend. Aside from letting us listen to Spanish folk music from the 1930s and 1940s, the film depicts the historical setting and makes a poignant criticism to the moral and sexual subversion of this post-Civil War period. The return to the memory of the Spanish copla (and its imaginary materialized in the Spanish folk music cinema of the 1930s and 1940s) is impossible without this film, delicately starring Ángela Molina and Manuel Bandera in the roles of singers. Along with the evocation of the world of songs, the film portrays its backstage and makes a brilliant bet to allude to the moral and sexual subversion of this environment and its sad end in the Spanish postwar period.