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Love in the Time of Cholera | 
| Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes, Marcela Mar
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 7333
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 139 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000036654
UPC: 794043113451
EAN: 0794043113451
ASIN: B0011FLH14
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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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 |
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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
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 Love in time of cholera March 13, 2010
Rosemary Myers (Tehachapi,california)
I got the video in good shape, and in a timely manner, I will keep in mind the company where I purchased the dvd and would do business with them again.
 If you love the book, avoid this movie February 21, 2010
Balaji Rajam (San Jose, CA)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's works must be among the most difficult to adapt to a movie. The lyrical and mystical nature of his writing is practically impossible to show on screen.
So when starting with disadvantages the director needs to be on his A-game. He lost it riight at the onset when he decided to make it in english. It would have been betteroff made in spanish. If it was made in english, why the stupid accent ? The book translation doesn't come with accents. Why in teh movie? Reminded of last year's disaster "Memoirs of a Geisha".
In short, if you love the book , you will HATE the movie.
Love in Spite of Cholera... January 8, 2010
Kenneth A. Nelson (Pensacola, FL)
Several love stories going on throughout this film makes for an interesting core for this film. Unfortunatly, the passions are rather low-key and more excitement among the lovers would have added a lot to the film's flow.
For me, the most noted love story was the one between the camera operators, the director and the beautiful outdoor scenery (including gardens) and the perfectly staged interiors. I lived in Columbia for a short time during the mid-70's and the atmosphere the Art Director created was flawless.
The Actors all delivered good performances. The production was professionally executed, but I don't see any BIG awards going to this film.
GREAT MOVIE - MUST SEE December 9, 2009
Mary Marcus (Kingsburg, Ca)
This is definitely a "date" movie, not for children. You must see this movie, it will make you laugh, cry, and just feel good. Great settings, beautiful costuming, one of a kind.
Superb Movie Adaptation December 4, 2009
Ana Mardoll (United States)
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
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