Love in the Time of Cholera
by Mike Newell
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Actor: Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem, Marcela MarDirector: Mike Newell
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Love in the Time of Cholera
DVD Review: Love in the Time of Cholera
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie had fine, quality, actors starring in it but failed to deliver in storyline. The movie was weak and failed to create a character developement of the actors.DVD Review: Love In The Time Of Cholera
Summary: 4 Stars
I wish I had more to say about the product itself but unfortunately I ordered it on 18/9/2008, today is 21st Oct. I still haven't received it.
My rating of this item its entirely based on what I've heard about it...which is the reason why I ordered it.
DVD Review: EL AMOR EN LOS TIEMPOS....
Summary: 4 Stars
AS A COLOMBIAN AND FAN OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ`S BOOKS I FOUND THIS FILM SADLY A MISREPRESENTACION FROM THE BEAUTY OF THE BOOK ITSELF.GREAT ACTORS BUT NO MUCH THEY COULD DO IF THE DIRECTOR CANNOT PUT THE BOOK FEELINGS INTO THE ACCION OF THE FILM.FEAR ENOUGH, YOU CANNOT ALL BLAME IT ON HIM, BECAUSE I DONT THINK ANYBODY EVER WOULD BE ABLE TO DO A FILM ABOUT HIS BOOKS AND GET IT RIGHT.BY THE WAY TO THOSE WHO ARE WRITTING ABOUT THE FILM WITHOUT READING THE BOOK I THINK IS JUST POINTLESS,READ THE BOOK FIRST THEN YOU CAN MAKE A FEAR COMMENT.
ANYWAY THERE WERE FEW GOOD SCENES ON THE FILM, SPECIALLY SHOWING THE CARRIBEAN SPIRIT IN COLOMBIA,AND THE BEAUTY OF THE PICTURES.OVERALL IT CANNOT BE BETTER, AND BLAME THE EXCELLENT ABILITY OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ AS AUTHOR.
DVD Review: The Film Is Beautiful to Look at, But Lacks Emotion
Summary: 2 Stars
Despite 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 Garc?a M?rquez 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 19th century Columbia. Rejected by his first love Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), Florentino remains faithful to Fermina - in spirit, I should add - for more than 50 years, during which a variety of episodes are related about these two main characters. Sadly few of them are really memorable.
Perhaps the film's language has something to do with my disappointment. Though set in a port town of South America, all characters speak in English and some actors look terribly uncomfortable. Or maybe Mike Newell's insipid direction is to be blamed. The narrative lacks romance and humor, as if taking every word and action of the larger-than-life characters too literally. You need a subtle blend of playfulness and seriousness, or imagination and reality, two seemingly contradictory elements to tell a story of this scale. You need skills and confidence as narrator, someone like Alfonso Cuar?n or Tarsem Singh.
Or perhaps some novels like Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez's cannot be translated to film. I know this is not a new theory about film adaptation and I am not convinced yet, but as far as "Love in the Time of Cholera" is concerned, I am beginning to believe in that.
DVD Review: The acting should be as good as the scenery
Summary: 3 Stars
Bardem, 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 life, who
he actually barely knew.
Description of Love in the Time of Cholera
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:?1000036654There'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 Garc?a M?rquez 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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