At the end of the 19th century in Cartagena, a river port in Colombia, Florentino Ariza falls in love at first sight of Fermina Daza. They secretly correspond and she eventually agrees to marry but her father discovers their relationship and sends her to distant relatives. When she returns some years later, Fermina agrees to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, her father's choice. Their fifty year marriage is marked by roughly equal amounts of love and anger. Fermina's marriage devastates Florentino, but his mother throws a willing widow into his bed and he discovers that sex is a very good pain reliev... er. He begins to number and describe each of his women, beginning with #1, the widow, and eventually has over 600 names and notes. He also decides to be as successful and rich as Dr. Urbino and, when the doctor dies suddenly, immediately renews his courtship of Fermina.
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Since Gabriel Garc??a M??rquez first published Love in the Time of Cholera internationally in 1988, he is said to have declined, much like a character in one of his books, something on the order of 50 offers to turn the novel into a film. Part of his reluctance to fork over the story to Hollywood apparently stemmed from his misgivings about subjecting one the greatest Spanish-language novels of the 20th century to an English-language adaptation. And after seeing what director Mike Newell and screenwriter Ronald Harwood have done to it, it's pretty clear that his fears were well-founded.
Producer Scott Steindorff has said in interviews that he won Ga...
While seemingly impossible-to-film novels are being gracefully nurtured for the screen this season (Atonement, The Kite Runner, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's much-adored Love in the Time of Cholera has been given a translation by helmer Mike Newell that's both too literal and too thorough. Despite a magnificent performance by Javier Bardem, the film not only falls short of the novel's magic, but fails to generate much of its own. Fans of the author, perhaps enlisted through the book's enshrinement in Oprah's Book Club, will be seduced. But serious filmgoers -- Love's target aud -- will be neither seduced nor amused, making for an...
It's always hard trying to adapt successful, award-winning literary novels, as so much of what made them great in the first place was the richness of the prose style. Although this isn't as bad as such flops as the infamous 1993 adaptation of Isabella Allende's The House Of Spirits Love In The Time Of Cholera isn't that much better.
The surprisingly slender plot, somewhat optimistically marketed as 'the greatest love story ever told', concerns the decade-spanning passion that the gentlemanly Colombian telegraph clerk and would-be poet Florentino Ariza (Bardem) feels for the beautiful Fermina Daza (Mezzogiorno). This love is unfortunately unrequited due to Fermi...
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i loved it. i respect a man who can wait so long for the love of his life. man that was a long wait but it was worth it to him. i believe in a love like that..i might have to relate to it at the same time cuz i think im going througgh the same thing in a way but i'll never know lol someone might make me forget about her haha. but hey great movie. ohh yeah i loved hearing Shakira after every emotional scene lol =P. and again very lovely movie.
It's a really good movie. You have to watch it with your heart, not with your eyes( (open eyes for Benjamin Bratt he's so handsome Try and Listen with your heart, not with your ears. But first we have to find another version..it's a good movie and deserves another chance. The book is better but the movie was nice also.
Try and Listen with your heart, not with your ears. But first we have to find another version..it's a good movie and deserves another chance. The book is better but the movie was nice also.
