The Body

2012

1h 47m

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Mystery

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

Directors

Oriol Paulo

Writers

Oriol Paulo(writer by)

Lara Sendim(writer by)

Stars

Jose Coronado

Hugo Silva

Belén Rueda

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Top cast

Jaime Peña

Álex Ulloa

Mayka Villaverde

Carla

Dra. Tapia

Gloria Villaverde

Patricia

Vigilante Ángel Torres

Agente Mateos

Erica Ulloa

Agente Norma

César Stevens

Luna Villaverde

Ruth (as Silvia Aranda)

Manel Dueso

Agente Carlos

Pere Brasó

Agente 3 (uncredited)

Albert López-Murtra

Agente 4 (uncredited)

Paco Moreno

Agente Científica (uncredited)

Directors

Oriol Paulo

Writers

Oriol Paulo(writer by)

Lara Sendim(writer by)

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“Mayka” (Belén Rueda) is a wealthy woman with a toy-boy chemist for an husband “Álex” (Hugo Silva) and it’s not really the happiest of arrangements. She regularly baits him and threatens him with a divorce that would render him poverty-stricken. Then, suddenly, she has an heart attack and ends up on a mortuary slab - but not for long. Before they can carry out an autopsy, she’s gone awol. Policeman “Jaime” (Jose Coronado) is suspicious of the husband and his potentially venal motives but with no body there is a distinct paucity of evidence. With a thunderstorm almost perpetually raging overhead, we spend most of the next two hours playing a clever game of cat and mouse where it’s not always clear which is which. We are drip fed clues, counter-clues and red herrings enthusiastically by auteur Oriol Paula to ensure we remain engagingly perplexed and equally suspicious throughout. Can it really be a simple as it all seems at first glance? The mystery is expertly sustained and unlike many others of this genre where the plot is predicable, this one really does have us guessing right until a denouement that has something of the Agatha Christie meets the “Sting” to it. The production uses the dark and wet environments effectively (nobody here ever seems to want to turn on the lights) and Coronado with his fastidiousness, Rueda with her obnoxiousness and Silva with his smugness all work well as the mix of real-time investigations and flashbacks help us to fill in some of the plentiful blanks abetted by some noxious science for good measure. This is a proper thriller.

Geronimo196714 Jun, 2025