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 María Sorté.
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Plot
Marta (Montenegro), a woman who tries to commit suicide, is saved by another, Carlota (Sorté), 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 Jiménez de Arias
María Sorté as Carlota Beltrán
Carlos Piñar as Roberto Arias Salgado
Otto Sirgo as Guillermo 'Memo' Beltrán
Juan Peláez as Antonio
Ariadna Welter as Leonor Salgado de Arias
Juan Luis Galiardo as Pedro
María Montaño
Jorge Patiño
Mario Cid
Rocío Chazaro
Leopoldo Salazar (as Polo Salazar)
Roberto Ballesteros
Carlos Pouliot
Patricia Durán
Elsa de los Ríos
Luz María Peña
Reception
In her book Sara García: Ícono cinematográfico 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".