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Wikipedia article




'El stiro' (in English: "The Satyr") is a 1980 Mexican comedy film directed by Ral Zenteno and starring Mauricio Garcs, Patricia Rivera, and Alberto Rojas.

Plot



A Don Juan (Mauricio Garcs), 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 Garcs

* Mnica Prado

* Gloria Mayo

* Isaura Espinoza

* Patricia Rivera

* Alicia Encinas

* Felicia Mercado

* Jacaranda Morel

* Tere Cornejo

* Alberto Rojas (as Alberto Rojas "El Caballo")

* Vctor Manuel Castro (as Vctor Manuel "Guero" Castro)

* Carlos Riquelme

* Roberto G. Rivera

* Fernando Yapur

* Pancho Mller (as Francisco Mueller)

* Carlos Bravo y Fernndez (as Carl-Hillos)

Analysis



Gustavo Garca and Jos 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 Garcs throughout his career. In 'Miradas disidentes: gneros y sexo en la historia del arte', Alberto Dallal noted that the fact that Garcs'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 Garcs film, 'Don Juan 67' (1966). In 'Del quinto poder al sptimo arte: la produccin flmica de Televisa', Ral Miranda Lpez cited the film as one among a group of films that at the time "raised [...] the issue of amusing sexual impotence" (describing Garcs as a "stubborn flirter"), describing it as a "condition [that was] returning to do its thing in the 'macho' Mexican cinema."

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