''Clouds of Smoke'' (''Nubes de humo'') is a 1959 Argentine musical (

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) comedy film directed and written by

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. It stars tango singer Alberto Castillo,

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, María Luisa Santés and Francisco Álvarez and was released on 14 May 1959. The film, Castillo's last, is dedicated to the memory of film director Manuel Romero.

Plot

An amateur tango student who gave up singing when he finished his degree, relapses.

Cast

* Alberto Castillo *

* María Luisa Santés * Francisco Álvarez *

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* Eber Lobato *

Francisco Canaro Francisco Canaro (November 26, 1888 – December 14, 1964) was a Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay, in 1888. His parents were Italian immigrants, and later, when he was less than 10 y ...

* Héctor Armendáriz * Mario Baroffio * Susana Rubio *

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* Elvira Joaquina Rodrígues Lima

Music

The music for the film was composed by

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. Alberto Castillo sings songs such as " Así se baila el tango". ''Archivo de la Filmoteca'' notes that the film fused together influences of

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and

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with

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and that Carreras's films "combine new rhythms and incorporate young generations".

Reception

Tulio Carella said in '' Crítica'': "A long story is told in ''Nubes de humo''. The film is minor and poorly plotted. It does, however, offer a few moments of excitement and some not-too-old-fashioned jokes." Jorge Miguel Couselo opined in '' Correo de la Tarde'' that it was "another tawdry film". Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela in their book ''Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930–1995)'' wrote (translated from Spanish): "Crepuscular title of a kind of cinema which tends towards more pop (there's a scene with rock and roll music) and which repeats scenes in a framework of falsehood."

References

External links

* {{Enrique Carreras 1959 films 1950s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films 1950s Argentine films Films directed by Enrique Carreras Tango films 1959 musical comedy films Argentine musical comedy films