Love in the Time of Cholera Release
Date: November 16, 2007 Studio: New Line Cinema Director: Mike Newell Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood Starring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina
Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo, Liev Schreiber, Fernanda Motenegro, Laura
Harring, John Leguizamo Genre: Drama, Romance MPAA Rating: R (for sex content/nudity and brief language) Official Website: LoveintheTime.com
Plot Summary: Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez'
novel and adapted by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood ("The
Pianist"), "Love in the Time of Cholera" is one of the world's most romantic
stories. The drama traces the Job-like vigil of Florentino Ariza, who waits for
more than half a century to claim the hand of Fermina Daza, the woman he loves.
Directed by Mike Newell ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Four Weddings
and a Funeral"), and featuring a talented cast that includes Javier Bardem,
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Giovanna Mezzogiorno,
Hector Elizondo and Liev Schreiber, "Love in the Time of Cholera" is scheduled
for a November 16th, 2007 release.
EN 5 Second Review:
I havent been this bored in a long long time, this movie
feels like 6 hours.
The
overambitious script [tries] to hold onto too much of the
sprawling novel Colin Covert: Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
"Love in the Time of Cholera" might be the most frustrating
adaptation of a beloved novel since David Lynch's "Dune."
Watching the dull, diligent film, I couldn't help feeling
that Gabriel García Márquez's generation-spanning romance
had been filmed in the wrong language...more
It’s
a well-crafted, handsome period piece, and pleasant to
watch, but the intensity of an obsessional style is beyond
[director] Newell’s range David Denby: New Yorker
The book, moving toward its triumphant conclusion, is a
wonder. The long, magnificently adorned sentences—a stately
river depositing alluvial riches of Colombian culture,
décor, sexuality, humor, and manners into the reader’s
heart—are as intoxicating a literary experience as any
available to us...more
It’s
a well-