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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0794043113451 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: New Line Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: 1000036654 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 18, 2008 Running Time: 138 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 2007 Editorial Review: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Film Is Beautiful to Look at, But Lacks EmotionDespite its breathtakingly beautiful landscape of Columbia and interesting cast including Oscar-winner Javier Bardem, Mike Newell's "Love in the Time of Cholera" based on a Gabriel García Márquez book is sadly disappointing. It is beautiful to look at, but has no soul in it. People often talk about the original author's magic realism, but there is no magic in the filmed version. The film follows the story of Florentino (Javier Bardem), a teenager and telegram clerk living in the late ... Read More Rating: - The acting should be as good as the sceneryBardem, who I adore was a real ham...story had a fairy tale feeling to it. Was a story of relentless love...great background music and wonderful scenery. Could say "love" can be enduring even if you hold out for it for 30 years. Or dreams can come true if you have the patience. The screen writer followed the book quite well. I felt Bardem was very immature and almost asexual. Just filling his emptiness with sex until he was reunited with the love of his ... Read More Rating:  - GREAT MOVIEExcellent performance of Javier Bardem. I've watched it 4 times. Great love story.I truly recommend this masterpiece. Rating: - Not a 5 star movie. But very charmingThe 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Raped in the DarkHeard 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 ... Read More |
