Spicy Chile

{{Infobox film | name = Spicy Chile | image = | caption = | director = René Cardona Jr. | producer = René Cardona Jr. | writer = René Cardona Jr. Juan Fernando Pérez Gavilán Gregorio Walerstein | starring = Andrés García Angélica Chain Alberto Rojas | music = Gustavo César Carrión | cinematography = Daniel López | editing = Rafael Ceballos | studio = Cinematográfica Filmex S.A. Productora Fílmica Real | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1983|05|05|df=yes}} | runtime = 78 minutes | country = Mexico | language = Spanish | budget = | gross = }} '''''Spicy Chile''''' (Spanish:'''''Chile picante''''') is a 1983 Mexican comedy film directed by René Cardona Jr., starring Andrés García, Angélica Chain, and Alberto Rojas.<ref>Ramírez Berg p.127</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Quezada |first=Mario Alberto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJ8YAQAAIAAJ&dq=Chile+Picante+Cardona+Jr&pg=PA141 |title=Diccionario del cine mexicano, 1970-2000 |date=2005 |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |isbn=978-970-32-2040-3 |language=es}}</ref>

The film is also known in Mexico as '''''Sexo a la mexicana'''''.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film489464.html |title=Chile picante (Sexo a la mexicana) (1983) |language=en |access-date=2024-07-07 |via=www.filmaffinity.com}}</ref> The film consists of two segments: "La infidelidad" (Infidelity) and "Los compadres".

==Cast==

=== Segment "La infidelidad" ===

* Andrés García * Angélica Chain * Alberto Rojas * Alfredo Wally Barrón * Karen Castello * Alma Estela * Irene Gallegos * Juan Jaramillo * Norma Lee * Carlos Monden * Lourdes Morales * Polo Ortín * Juan Carlos Peralta * Sofia Vargas * Sybille Young * Gerardo Zepeda

=== Segment "Los compadres" === * Blanca Guerra * Héctor Suárez * Princesa Lea * María Cardinal . * Eduardo de la Peña * Tito Junco * Jeannette Mass * Lyn May . * Pedro Weber 'Chatanuga'

== Reception == ''El Mundo'' notes that in the two segments, sex is as central a topic as hot sauce.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Chile picante |url=https://www.elmundo.es/television/programacion-tv/peliculas/24239692_chile-picante.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |newspaper=El Mundo |language=es}}</ref> ''Multiplatform Media in Mexico'' indeed noted that the title of the film was self-explanatory,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Paul Julian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3P-ZDwAAQBAJ&dq=Chile+Picante+Cardona+Jr&pg=PA40 |title=Multiplatform Media in Mexico: Growth and Change Since 2010 |date=2019-05-23 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-17539-9 |language=en}}</ref> while ''Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983'' saw in it one of various films of Cardona Jr. based on the same narrative pattern.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Berg |first=Charles Ramírez |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eGXiuSxYQ_kC&dq=Chile+Picante+Cardona+Jr&pg=PA127 |title=Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983 |date=2010-07-05 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-79192-3 |language=en}}</ref> ''Contrapunto'' found the film was "a stupid comedy, very cheap under all aspects".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPU9AQAAIAAJ&q=Chile+Picante+Cardona+Jr |title=Contrapunto |date=1986 |publisher=Sistema Nacional de Radio y Television Cultural |language=es}}</ref> ''MiTv'' found the two comedic segments "hilarious".<ref>{{Cite web |last=mi.tv |title=Chile picante (Película) {{!}} Programación de TV en Argentina {{!}} mi.tv |url=https://mi.tv/ar/programas/chile-picante-1983 |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=mi.tv |language=spanish}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Charles Ramírez Berg. ''Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983''. University of Texas Press, 2010.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0257478}}

Category:1983 films Category:1983 comedy films Category:Mexican comedy films Category:1983 Spanish-language films Category:Films directed by René Cardona Jr. Category:1983 Mexican films Category:Spanish-language comedy films