Love in the Time of Cholera
by Mike Newell
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Actor: Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem, Marcela MarDirector: Mike Newell
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of Love in the Time of Cholera
Movie Review: Shame ! Garcia Marques deserved better.
Summary: 1 Stars
I read" Love in the Times of Cholera" manny years ago. Was a very special book, wich i read in a particular moment of my life. I felt insulted for that adaptation and the lack of sensitivity and respect from the producer in having such a wrong choice for director and writer. With such a talent cast its a real shame see such a waste. Gabriel Garcia Marques, his readers and the cast deserved better... a .much better adaptation. I will read the book again to forget the movie.
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 Garc?a M?rquez 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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