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Con el cuerpo prestado
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Wikipedia article
'Con el cuerpo prestado' (English: "With a Borrowed Body") is a 1983 Mexican fantasy comedy film directed by Tulio Demicheli and starring Sasha Montenegro and Mara Sort.Amador & Ayala Blanco, p. 160
Plot
Marta (Montenegro), a woman who tries to commit suicide, is saved by another, Carlota (Sort), from drowning, but in preventing it Carlota herself dies drowned. After a while, Carlota returns in spirit to take possession of Marta's body and thus meet the man she loved in life.
Cast
* Sasha Montenegro as Marta Jimnez de Arias
* Mara Sort as Carlota Beltrn
* Carlos Piar as Roberto Arias Salgado
* Otto Sirgo as Guillermo 'Memo' Beltrn
* Juan Pelez as Antonio
* Ariadna Welter as Leonor Salgado de Arias
* Juan Luis Galiardo as Pedro
* Mara Montao
* Jorge Patio
* Mario Cid
* Roco Chazaro
* Leopoldo Salazar (as Polo Salazar)
* Roberto Ballesteros
* Carlos Pouliot
* Patricia Durn
* Elsa de los Ros
* Luz Mara Pea
Reception
In her book 'Sara Garca: cono cinematogrfico mexicano, abuela y lesbiana', Ileana Baeza Lope cites the film as one of the exceptions to the tendency in Mexican cinema of "affective relationships between women [being] relegated to the sidelines", while "male camaraderie relationships were in the foreground".Baeza Lope, p. 81
References
Bibliography
*Amador, Mara Luisa; Ayala Blanco, Jorge. 'Cartelera cinematogrfica, 1980-1989'. UNAM, 2006.
*Baeza Lope, Ileana. 'Sara Garca: cono cinematogrfico mexicano, abuela y lesbiana'. Argus-a Artes y Humanidades, 2018.
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