''El sátiro'' (in English: "The Satyr") is a 1980 Mexican comedy film directed by Raúl Zenteno and starring

Mauricio Garcés Mauricio Feres Yázbek (December 16, 1926 – February 27, 1989), known professionally as Erasmo Perez, was a Mexican actor and comedian. Personal life and career Garcés was of Lebanese descent and was born in the Mexican port of Tampico, Tama ...

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, and

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Plot

Don Juan Don Juan (), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, '' El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra'' ...

(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

Mónica Prado Monica is a female given name with many variant forms, including Mónica (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese), Mônica (Brazilian Portuguese), Monique (French), Monika (German, Indian), Moonika (Estonia), and Mónika (Hungarian). History The ety ...

* Gloria Mayo *

Isaura Espinoza Isaura Espinoza (born Isaura Espinoza on August 25, 1960, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico) is a Mexican actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the trad ...

* Alicia Encinas *

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* Jacaranda Morel * Tere Cornejo *

(as Alberto Rojas "El Caballo") *

Víctor Manuel Castro Víctor Manuel Castro (1924–2011) was a Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director.Ramírez Berg p.127 Filmography * ''Love for Sale (1951 film), Love for Sale'' (1951) * ''The Unknown Mariachi'' (1953) * ''Raffles (1958 film), Raffles'' (19 ...

(as Víctor Manuel "Guero" Castro) *

Carlos Riquelme Carlos Riquelme (13 May 1914 – 17 May 1990) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 160 films between 1939 and 1989. Selected filmography * ''Adventure in the Night'' (1948) * '' A Family Like Many Others'' (1949) * ''The Absentee'' (19 ...

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* Pancho Müller (as Francisco Mueller) *

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(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. 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). 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

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returning to do its thing in the ''macho'' Mexican cinema."

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Satiro, El 1980 films 1980s Spanish-language films 1980 comedy films Mexican comedy films Midlife crisis films 1980s Mexican films Spanish-language comedy films