TILL DEATH DO US PART: LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN ARGENTINA SUPERNATURAL CLASSIC COMEDY

Comedy was one of the main genres in the embourgeoisement that Argentine cinema went through in the 1940s. This process proposed a sophisticated universe where young bourgeois men and women could carelessly and recklessly have romantic adventures, and untouchable social institutions such as marriage and work life could be questioned. This approach was made possible by resorting to narrative forms such as parody and farce, and recurring motifs like supernatural elements that displaced the action to unreal scenarios where social order could be mocked. Movies such as Cita en las estrellas (Carlos Schlieper, 1949) and El extrano caso de la mujer asesinada (Boris H. Hardy, 1949) articulated heavenly afterlife settings with critical stances about monogamy and eternal love, while, at the same time, presenting new female characters for the Argentine film screen.