Love in the Time of Cholera

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Director:
Mike Newell
R, 138 Minutes
 

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Florentino (Javier Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

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Runtime:
138 min.

Genres:
Drama
Romance

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

Tagline

How long would you wait for love?

 

Plot Summary

Love in the Time of Cholera is a 2007 motion picture directed by Mike Newell. Based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, it tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her two suitors, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) and Doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) which spans 50 years, from 1880 to 1930.

It will be the first time that a Garcia Márquez novel has been made into a film by a Hollywood studio, others being made by Latin American or Italian directors. It is also the first English language work of Academy Award-nominated Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro.

 

 

 

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Directed by
Mike Newell

Produced by
Scott Steindorff
Jose Ludlow

Writing credits
Ronal Harwood
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cast

Benjamin Bratt
Javier Bardem
Marcela Mar
John Leguizamo

 

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  • Not like the book

    This novel is fascinating because the way it was written, but when transported to a movie it didn't quite do it. It is some what entretaining and Giovana (Fermina Dasa) does a good job. But the screen writting falls short of what they could have done, specially at the end ... read more