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Gina Bernard Forbes Love in the Time of Cholera
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem, Marcela Mar Directed By: Mike Newell Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Line Home Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 18, 2008 Running Time: 138 minutes Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 2007
Product Description: 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: 1000036654
Amazon.com: There'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
Not a 5 star movie. But very charming The trailer for this movie captivated me with expectations of a beautiful love story. Since, No Country for Old Men I have been intrigued by the mere presence of Javier Bardem. I reluctanly rented this movie because I hadn't heard or seen any reviews about it. But I decided to give it shot anyway. I have to admit the movie is not a feature film and had I taken the time to get dressed and go to the movies to see I would have probably been disappointed. The story had geat intentions and the actors did a great job but the story failed in a lot of areas. Suprisingly, it had very funny moments; plus the idea of someone waiting 50 years to love another is a beautiful thought. The movie is not 5 stars but it has it's own charm and it won me over and I want it for my video collection.
Raped in the Dark
Heard about this book, a potboiler down in Columbia, but was pleasantly surprised, the wife and I, by an interesting story, poetic really, about a place and time, late 19th Century Latin America. The sexuality of the Columbian middle to upper classes surprised me. Normally nude scenes embarrass in mixed company. If I want porn, then okay, but posed nudes in old Columbia were beautiful, charming.
The accent thing was a bit annoying, either do it in Spanish and then overdub or get a Spanish cast to do English with heavy accents. That Alexander film with Brad Pitt doing the English accent playing a Greek. You see what I mean.
Nevertheless, once we waded into poor Florentino's unrequited love and then unlikely seductions, particularly his first experience when he is raped in the dark, fascinating.
Shame ! Garcia Marques deserved better. 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.
love in the time of cholea Love in the Time of Cholea is boring and trashy and I would have given it less than one star if it was possible. My wife and I suffered through about 50 minutes, which seemed like an eternity, before we had enough and shut it off. The DVD was a complete waste of money.
Entertainment for Adults This film was excellent in that it wasn't filled with blood and guts and gore as are too many films being made today. It's a wonderful feel good love story that captivates the viewer (especially women) from beginning to end. Though it wanders in places the actors and cinematography validate and redeem this film. It's funny too. I was pleasantly surprised to discover just how much I liked this "sleeper" of a story. See it and decide for yourself. It's better than most of the trash out there today. As for me, I'm buying it!
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