Love in the Time of Cholera
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Actor: Benjamin Bratt, Javier BardemBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
Published: 2008-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 1000036654
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, comes an epic love story that spans a lifetime, set against the breathtaking backdrop of South America during the turn of the century. When a teenage Florentino Ariza sees Fermina Daza for the first time, a spark of youthful infatuation ignites a romance that will carry the two from intoxicating highs to desperat
Movie Reviews of Love in the Time of Cholera
Movie Review: Superb Movie Adaptation
Summary: 5 Stars
Love in a Time of Cholera / B0011FLH14
A long-time fan of Gabriel Marquez's deeply symbolic novel of love in all its many and varied forms, I was deeply surprised at the lukewarm reception this powerful film has received. I wonder, perhaps, if there is a reason why so many great novels shall never make it to the silver screen - so much content simply has to be cut to fit a coherent movie into a shortened time block, that inevitably fans will be upset that some favorite scene or character was not included. And yet I felt that this movie adaptation superbly captured the feel and story of Marquez's masterpiece.
A particular word must be said about the casting, which is quite wonderful. All the actors play their roles exceptionally well, especially the roles of Fermina and Florentino. Florentino does a gracious job with the difficult and demanding role - equal parts 'devoted' lover (devoted in his heart, but never with his body), clever seducer, and yet suffering from an intensely broken heart. Fermina, too, has the unenviable task of remaining sympathetic whilst playing a distant and aloof lady who breaks one lover's heart and marries another whom she does not, initially, care much for. The struggle of the two lovers, as they cope to live their lives buffeted by the deep passions within their relationship is quite realistic, and never feels forced for the sake of plot or pacing.
Moral guardians will, of course, take umbrage at the level of nudity in this movie - and often 'unsexy' nudity at that! Yet that is the world that Marquez attempted to portray - a *real* world, where people have sex naked, and their bodies are not all oiled statues of unreal, air-brushed beauty. Nor does the director shy away from Marquez's insistence that aged romance is as passionate and valid as youthful ones - and aged nudity is on display respectfully, not as something automatically disgusting or inherently titillating as Fermina's daughter would suggest. Humanity is portrayed here, and humor, as well - as when Florentino is interrupted at his place of business and his visitor assures the lady to have no qualms about continuing in his absense, as he has not glimpsed the lady's face! Or the heartwarming, illiterate couple who woos one another through Florentino's love letter writing services.
At the end of the day, no movie can hope to fully encapsulate an epic novel of this length and complexity, but I feel that this movie comes as close as possible and hits the mark beautifully, and for that I am grateful.
~ Ana Mardoll
Summary of Love in the Time of Cholera
Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes an epic love story that spans a lifetime set against the breathtaking backdrop of South America during the turn of the century. When a teenage Florentino Ariza sees Fermina Daza for the first time a spark of youthful infatuation ignites a romance that will carry the two from intoxicating highs to desperate lows over the next 50 years in the film that dares to ask; How long would you wait for love?Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/LOVE & ROMANCE UPC: 794043113451 Manufacturer No: 1000036654There's no reason an Englishman shouldn't take on a landmark in Latin American literature. Four Weddings and a Funeral, after all, proves Mike Newell has a feel for romance. Adapted by The Pianist's Ronald Harwood, Love in the Time of Cholera is an epic vision of true love. For all the talent involved, however, this lush realization of the Gabriel García Márquez novel never takes flight. Newell begins with a death before backtracking 50 year to the late-1800s, with Florentino (Unax Ugalde), a poetry-writing telegraph operator living in an unnamed city (the movie was filmed in Cartagena, Columbia) who spots the graceful Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) while making his rounds, and that's it--he's in love. While Florentino's mother (Central Station's Fernanda Montenegro) encourages the courtship, Fermina's father (John Leguizamo in over-the-top mode) forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) treats Fermina for a case of cholera. Then, Urbino proposes. Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino (now played by Javier Bardem) decides to wait. With the help of his uncle (a sprightly Hector Elizondo), he amasses wealth of his own. All the while, he drifts from woman to woman. After five decades of waiting, he gets a second chance to win Fermina's heart, and it's easier said than done. Florentino's journey is absorbing, but Newell's film lacks the passion and complexity of Marquez's prose. The actors give it their all, but Love in the Time of Cholera is more of a pleasant diversion than a life-changing experience. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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