Sexo Con Amor (2003)

Sexo Con Amor (2003) is the most popular movie ever made in Chile. It is a soap opera comedy exposing the bedroom habits of supposedly good Catholic Chileans. The common thread for the ensemble cast is a grammar school classroom. The primary story concerns the teacher, and her affair with a famous author, the father of one of her students. Although he writes and lectures about love and sex, he can't get along with his own wife. For her part, her artist boyfriend is too immature to suit her. The parents of another boy in the class, a butcher and his wife, are the only basically monogamous members of the cast but their sex life isn't working any better than anyone else's. He doesn't believe in foreplay, and she finds sex too painful with no preparation. Then there is a ladies' man with a very pregnant wife. When the butcher's hot niece arrives from France, all the main characters are in place.

I don't want to give away too much story, but highlights include the butcher doing his 19 year old niece on top of the vibrating washing machine, his wife masturbating with a large zucchini, and Mr. Stud becoming jealous that his pregnant wife went to the movies with an old male college classmate. He is so upset, he can't get it up to screw the new sexpot in his office.

Several comments at IMDb make special note of the fact that this film is very much about and for Chileans, and points out that, even though the country is still fiercely Roman Catholic, they don't let that get in the way once bedroom (or office) doors are closed. I enjoyed it very much as a sex comedy, and found that it covered some rather universal human foibles with wit and charm. The photography is very strong, with a rich color palette. María Izquierdo, as the butcher's wife, is hilarious with wonderful comedic expressions. The subtitles were clearly done by someone who was fluent in Spanish and English, as they didn't just translate words from Spanish to English, but captured the meaning and connotations. The DVD transfer is excellent. This is a high C+ as a foreign language comedy, and gets a very enthusiastic thumbs up from me.

IMDb readers have this at 7.2 and it won a host of awards.

María Izquierdo, as the butcher's wife, shows a breast in a bath tub scene.

Carolina Oliva, as the office sexpot, shows a breast.

Catalina Guerra, as an unstable conquest of the ladies man, shows a breast.

Javiera Díaz de Valdés, as the niece, shows full frontal.

Sigrid Alegría, as the teacher, does full frontal and rear nudity and is completely adorable.