Comedia picaresca

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The comedia picaresca (Spanish for "picaresque comedy") is a type of sexual comedy film from Argentina that flourished particularly between the 1970s and 1980s, becoming one of the most successful genres in the local film industry during the years of the last civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983). The genre's foremost exponent was the series of films starring the comic duo of Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel for the production company Aries Cinematográfica Argentina, which began in 1973 with Los caballeros de la cama redonda and was characterized by its "light sexual content, the treatment of taboo subjects such as infidelity and the dissociation between sex and love, the use of double entendre, and the presence of scantily clad women as sexual objects." Picaresque comedies were low-budget films shot in a matter of weeks with the aim of bringing the product to market as quickly as possible, emulating the Hollywood quickie model. The genre has been compared to similar phenomena such as Landismo and the cine de destape in Spain, the pornochanchadas in Brazil, and the cine de ficheras or sexycomedias in Mexico.