Bésame En La Boca (1995)

Original title

Bésame en la boca

Directed by

Abraham Cherem

Genre

musical film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl goes on a mystical journey where she switches bodies with someone else. Through this experience she finds herself and discovers real love.

romanticfantasticalwhimsicallightheartedbody-swapself-discoveryupbeatnostalgic

What happens

Bésame En La Boca is a 1995 Mexican romance and fantasy film directed and written by Abraham Cherem and Ricardo Del Rio, and produced by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach. The film stars Latin pop singer Paulina Rubio, actors Charlie Masso, Fernando Colunga, Delia Casanova, Dolores Beristáin, and Leonardo García. The film was produced by Televicine and released on June 23, 1995 in Mexico. The plot centers on one young girl as she take an ancestral travel and changes body, finding herself and real love in the process. Development on the film began in 1994, when Rubio created a concept inspired by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry's film Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Alexander Hall's Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), which was later expanded by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach. Principal filming began in November 1994, and encompassed over a period of two months. Critics gave mixed reviews to Bésame En La Boca; however, they considered it a better effort of Rubio as actress. Despite the film's response from critics, it was a box office success, Staying on the main billboard for six weeks. According to the website staff of the newspaper El Debate, at that time the film "brought thousands of young people to theaters to enjoy 'La Chica Dorada' [Rubio], who at that time had already scored her first hit, "Mío", and [Fernando] Colunga, who was beginning to emerge as a telenovelas actor." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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