
Sara is a high-class girl overprotected by her hysteric mother. During a weekend, she goes to a pub called El Calentito wants meeting with Toni to lose her virginity, but Sara discovers Toni with other girl, and she drunks until being unconscious. At the next day, Sara wake up in the house of Leo and Carmen, two free-spirited low-class girls who are looking for a girl for her music punk band, Las Sioux, after that other girl, Chus, left the band. Since then Leo and Carmen hav... (Full plot summary below)
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Sara is a high-class girl overprotected by her hysteric mother. During a weekend, she goes to a pub called El Calentito wants meeting with Toni to lose her virginity, but Sara discovers Toni with other girl, and she drunks until being unconscious. At the next day, Sara wake up in the house of Leo and Carmen, two free-spirited low-class girls who are looking for a girl for her music punk band, Las Sioux, after that other girl, Chus, left the band. Since then Leo and Carmen have that same morning an interview with Ernesto, a music producer, they ask Sara helps them going with the two to the interview. Reluctant at the beginning, Sara finally accepts. When Sara meets Ernesto, she starts falling in love with him, thinking if he would the perfect man to lose his virginity. Discovering her own voice to sing, Sara accepts to be the new Sioux, hiding this fact to her family with the help of her best friend Marta, but in a party celebrated a few days later, all ruins: Carmen hook up with Marta, Ernesto seems to be interested in Chus and Ana, Sara's mother, discovers the recent activities of her daughter, forbidding her continue with the band. Then Sara escapes from home and she refuges in the El Calentito helped by Antonia, transsexual own's pub. Convinced by Leo and Carmen to return to the band, the girls get them first concert in El Calentito for a special date: Febraury 23, 1981. Despite the total opposition to her mother, Sara goes to El Calentito to play with Leo and Carmen, but just this day, a military group make a coup d'etat in the Congreso de los Diputados (Spanish Parliament), causing the chaos: Sara discovers that Ernesto wasn't interested in Chus (who is lesbian and Carmen's ex-girlfriend), that Ernesto is a con-artist able to treason anyone to get success, and that a ex Civil Guard neighbor has done his own mini coup d'etat in the pub. Meanwhile the country take the streets claiming against the coup d'etat and Antonia fights against the neighbor, Sara shrinks in a depression in the El Calentito's store, but in this moment appears Jorge, Antonia's son, with who she finds again the hope, having with him her long-time first sexual experience. Full of happiness, Sara returns to the stage with her friends to sing for life and freedom.
Leave your thoughts about El Calentito.
| User ReviewPrivate UThe best movie never to win an award ... an anti-fascist classic!!! |
| User ReviewClare ELove it! gente esta pelicula es del putas consiganla es buena musica y buena ropa ademas de una historia chevere |
| User ReviewNacho SI really enjoyed this movie, I was lucky and came across it one day on "World Movies" on cable, unfortunately it is not available in Australia on DVD =( Set during the birth of the La Movida movement in Spain from which directors like Almodóvar and music groups like Fangoria found artistic inspiration, El Calentito is a raucous, high energy comedy that is out, loud and in your face. An effervescent roller coaster ride that will definitely be nostalgic for some and influence a new generation of queers to take to the stage and kick butt. |
| User ReviewMargara MEs muyyy buenaa... y la música es lo mejor!!!! |
| User ReviewDanny GGive me, Give me, Give me poison!!!!!!!!! |
| User ReviewJuan RGood try, la Movida is always a nice topic. |
| User ReviewPanta OThis Spanish comedy is about Sara, young lady who is raised in a catholic family and is still a virgin. Trying to understand the "secrets of life" she stumbles her way to the underground nightclub El Calentito, owned by a sassy transsexual. The venue plays host to some of the hottest up-and-coming musical groups including Las Sioux, an all-girl rock band fronted by Carmen, who happens to be a lesbian, and Leo, who is always in some state of undress so her breasts can run free. It is interesting to mention that all this is happening in the politically conservative climate of the Franco regime, and it wasn't easy time for a club which became a safe haven for all forms of sexual expression: gay, bisexual and try-anything sexual. When their singer leaves, Sara gets invited to perform with Las Sioux and, on the night of her scheduled debut, February 23, 1981, an uprising occurs causing the government to collapse and a thrilling night of wild, uninhibited celebrations explodes... This was the time of the La Movida movement in Spain from which directors like Almodóvar and music groups like Fangoria found artistic inspiration... No wonder that El Calentito is a raucous, high energy comedy that is out, loud and in your face... some people like that... others don't... I was one of them... but I could not put this movie in average category - it is out there to be remembered! |
| User ReviewArturo DA fun story set against the "Movida Madrile�±a" countercutural movement of 80's Spain. A girl breaks up with her boyfriend and that somehow leads to her being cast as part of a girl rock band. I love Veronica Sanchez. *cof cof. Sorry what? |
| User ReviewDamaris LLos españoles YA tienen que soltar eso, en serio. |