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]

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]

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