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Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's novel of the same name, director Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera details a passionate love triangle that unfolds in turn-of-the-c... read more read more...entury South America. Oscar-winning Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood adapts the story of two young lovers who bide their time for years while anxiously awaiting the day they can finally be together. Through marriages, affairs, careers, and deaths, the couple never loses hope that destiny will unite them in the end. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 2 hr. 18 min.

Directed by: Mike Newell

Release Date: November 16, 2007

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  • hunterjt13
    April 17, 2011
    hunterjt13
    A man obsesses/loves a woman over the course of fifty-three years.
    In this adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lush novel, I could easily tell the sections of dialogue/narration that were taken from his book. In these sections, the language was so rich that I couldn't help bu... read moret be sucked into the world Marquez created. And in this world the obsession that wracks Florentino makes sense; it almost seems reasonable to equate obsession with love. However, the film's principal flaw is its unevenness - the disconnect between the banality of the situations, cinematography, and acting and the elevation of the main conflict. By the end of the film, it was almost as though I was reading a great book that was getting interrupted by a bad imitation of the book.
    Also, I wondered throughout most of the film how we're meant to feel about Florentino. Is he elevated as a hero, or should we pity him? The story's conclusion and the fact that he is rewarded with sex with over 600 women while he waits for the object of his obsession makes me lean toward the former option, but what does this say about love? Is love really obsession? Should we really consider such impracticality admirable? In real life, wouldn't Florentino's behavior be tantamount to stalking? The only moment when Florentino is put up for ridicule and question involves him writing a bill of lading as a love poem, and this scene is welcome in the film's larger context. Yet it also contributes to the unevenness of the film because the ridicule is almost immediately abandoned.
    Overall, I really wanted to like Love in the Time of Cholera, but the film lacks the singular purpose and consistency of it hero.
  • 76Majikat
    February 16, 2010
    76Majikat
    A sort of tragic love tale of sorts, a long film, but as with most Javier Bardem films, there is a great quality to them. Whilst the storyline itself was a little one-dimensional (in a simplistic sort of way) the acting was not and it was a sincere tale of true love.
  • emilebond007
    January 16, 2010
    emilebond007
    Interesting movie, with good acting.


    Has some memorable scenes.


    Love in the Time of Cholera is a good movie, well made, nothing more.
  • ScoopOnline
    December 17, 2009
    ScoopOnline
    Love is a very weird thing.
  • Redlats
    June 1, 2009
    Redlats
    You would think this movie would work. Florentino finds his soul mate (Fermina) while just a kid, but her father will not bless the marriage, so Florentino waits 50 years while she marries, had kids and her husband dies before he courts Fermina once again. Using the same actor ... read moreto play a 20 year old and a 70 year old needs a lot of make up - especially if the 70 year old is naked.
  • mwilliams078
    February 28, 2009
    mwilliams078
    Love in the Time of Cholera is a very nice drama/romance. The story spands fifty years between two people. During this time they are in love but are unable to wed against her father's wishes....will both of them find one another again and be still in love??? you should watch and ... read morefind out.
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    June 5, 2008
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    This film had potential but was easily destroyed by the poor concept and bad execution. The make-up was pathetic, the directing was just average, it seemed like it was done by an amateur filmmaker who just graduated film school. I have problems with the language they spoke. Its s... read moreupposed to be in Colombia where people speaks Spanish, not choppy and unpleasant English. The plot of the film really did have potential but it was butchered by the people who was behind it. It ended up just like those generic love stories that knows no borders.

    But on the other hand, at least the lush visuals and colorful landscapes at least upped the films ante even for a little bit. It felt like you are just watching the film because of the rich texture of the landscape, never minding the unfolding plot.

    Javier Bardem loses his mop top bowl cut and takes on a charming young man of 20th century Colombia. His performance is quite okay but his chop socky accent is just too painful to hear. Female lead Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt were just okay.

    "Cholera" is an okay film, I enjoyed the rich background but the make-up was just pathetic. 2.5
  • puffchunk
    April 22, 2008
    puffchunk
    Javier Bardem is pretty great, especially as an old guy that has sex with beautiful women all day. Pretty run of the mill story otherwise.
  • sanjurosamurai
    April 5, 2008
    sanjurosamurai
    this was a pretty good movie for the most part. the acting was lacking and technical elements of the film were average for the most part, but the story was interesting and it was developed and told very well. bardem was the only actor to shine, and the story following his chara... read morecter was intriguing and profound, speaking alot to the emptiness of the heart when we search for things of a superficial nature. overall it was a good watch.
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    March 26, 2008
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    Very good movie. Stellar acting by Javier Bardem. A love triangle set in turn-of-the-century South America, where two lovers wait out careers, marriages, affairs and deaths until they can reunite.

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Critic Reviews

Richard Roeper
November 19, 2007
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Sometimes you're watching a bad movie, and you're like, 'Well, I'm still entertained,' so I'm recommending it on that sort of level.

Mick LaSalle
November 16, 2007
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

[Actress Mezzogiorno] finds the story's emotion by resisting the tug of the movie into grandeur. Full Review

Carrie Rickey
November 16, 2007
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

Bardem's hypnotic presence, like that of an Easter Island statue come to life, is one of the film's many pleasures. As is its intimations of a love everlasting. Full Review

Stephen Whitty
November 16, 2007
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

There isn't an actor here who really connects. Full Review

Kyle Smith
November 16, 2007
Kyle Smith, New York Post

If you've seen Gone With the Wind, you've seen what Love in the Time of Cholera isn't. Full Review

Jack Mathews
November 16, 2007
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

There's a little cholera in the middle and some love at the beginning and end, but Love in the Time of Cholera is mostly about romantic obsession and never-ending frustration -- the latter of which ma...

Amy Biancolli
November 16, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

That's really missing is a sense of rapture -- a touch of magic on this course through the decades. Full Review

Stephen Cole
November 16, 2007
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail

Admirers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera will be heartbroken to see how dull translators have drained the magic from his worldly romance. Full Review

Tom Long
November 16, 2007
Tom Long, Detroit News

Epic in its ambitions and romantic to its core, Love in the Time of Cholera may not please everyone, but it has to be admired. Full Review

John Monaghan
November 16, 2007
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

Hopelessly misguided. Full Review

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