El sátiro
El sátiro (in English: "The Satyr") is a 1980 Mexican comedy film directed by Raúl Zenteno and starring Mauricio Garcés, Patricia Rivera, and Alberto Rojas.[1][2]
| El sátiro | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Raúl Zenteno |
| Screenplay by | Raúl Zenteno |
| Story by | Mauricio Serral Raúl Zenteno |
| Starring | Mauricio Garcés Patricia Rivera Alberto Rojas |
| Cinematography | Miguel Araña |
| Edited by | Alfredo Rosas Priego |
| Music by | Gustavo César Carrión |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Televicine |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Plot
A Don Juan (Mauricio Garcés), a successful businessman in the lingerie business but fed up with having to resort to various costumes, wishes to rekindle his charm and maintain his reputation as a middle-aged womanizer with the help of a friend and apartment neighbor (Alberto Rojas). Things get complicated when he seems to find true love in the daughter of a friend (Patricia Rivera), a girl much younger than him.
Cast
- Mauricio Garcés
- Mónica Prado
- Gloria Mayo
- Isaura Espinoza
- Patricia Rivera
- Alicia Encinas
- Felicia Mercado
- Jacaranda Morel
- Tere Cornejo
- Alberto Rojas (as Alberto Rojas "El Caballo")
- Víctor Manuel Castro (as Víctor Manuel "Guero" Castro)
- Carlos Riquelme
- Roberto G. Rivera
- Fernando Yapur
- Pancho Müller (as Francisco Mueller)
- Carlos Bravo y Fernández (as Carl-Hillos)
Analysis
Gustavo García and José Felipe Coria in Nuevo cine mexicano described the film as a "self-critical revision" and "bitter self-criticism" in reference to the roles of romantic leading man played by Mauricio Garcés throughout his career.[3] In Miradas disidentes: géneros y sexo en la historia del arte, Alberto Dallal noted that the fact that Garcés's character "ends up in love with a girl who is smarter, in matters of seduction, than him" was a theme similar to that of a previous Garcés film, Don Juan 67 (1966).[4] In Del quinto poder al séptimo arte: la producción fílmica de Televisa, Raúl Miranda López cited the film as one among a group of films that at the time "raised [...] the issue of amusing sexual impotence" (describing Garcés as a "stubborn flirter"), describing it as a "condition [that was] returning to do its thing in the macho Mexican cinema."[5]
References
- Amador, María Luisa; Ayala Blanco, Jorge (2006). Cartelera cinematográfica, 1980–1989 (in Spanish). UNAM. p. 69. ISBN 970-32-3605-7.
- Díaz, Sergio (2008). Historia de la producción cinematográfica mexicana, 1979–1980 (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Universidad de Guadalajara. p. 255. ISBN 978-970-27-1400-2.
- García, Gustavo; Coria, José Felipe (1997). Nuevo cine mexicano (in Spanish). Editorial Clío. p. 17. ISBN 9789686932690.
- Dallal, Alberto (2007). Miradas disidentes: géneros y sexo en la historia del arte (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. p. 232. ISBN 978-970-32-3195-9.
- Miranda López, Raúl (2006). Del quinto poder al séptimo arte: la producción fílmica de Televisa (in Spanish). CONACULTA/Cineteca Nacional. p. 10. ISBN 970-99-6104-7.