Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Mike Newell

Writers (WGA):

Ronald Harwood (screenplay)
Gabriel García Márquez (novel)

Release Date:

16 November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

How long would you wait for love?

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Colombia | Marriage | Affair | Doctor | Port

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Benjamin Bratt	...	Dr. Juvenal Urbino
Gina Bernard Forbes	...	Digna Pardo
Giovanna Mezzogiorno	...	Fermina Urbino
Javier Bardem	...	Florentino Ariza
Marcela Mar	...	America Vicuña
Juan Ángel	...	Marco Aurelio - 40's
Liliana Gonzalez	...	Marco Aurelio’s Wife (as Liliana Alvarez Gonzalez)
Catalina Botero	...	Ofelia Urbino - 40's
Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo	...	Ofelia’s Husband
Maria Cecilia Herrera	...	Urbino's Sweet Wife
Luis Fernando Hoyos	...	Urbino Urbino
Carlos Duplat	...	Mourner
Francisco Raul Linero	...	Mourner
Unax Ugalde	...	Florentino - Teen
Liev Schreiber	...	Lotario Thugut

Also Known As:

Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera (Germany) [de]
El amor en los Tiempos del Cólera (Peru) [es]
El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Argentina) [es]
Kärlek i kolerans tid (Sweden) [sv]
Kærlighed i koleraens tid (Denmark) [da]
Kolera günlerinde ask (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
L'amore ai tempi del colera (Italy) [it]
L'amour au temps du choléra (France) [fr]
Ljubav u doba kolere (Serbia) [sr]
O Amor nos Tempos de Cólera (Portugal) [pt]
O Amor nos Tempos do Cólera (Brazil) [pt]
O erotas sta hronia tis holeras (Greece) [el]
Rakkautta koleran aikaan (Finland) [fi]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content/nudity and brief language.

Runtime:

139 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Brazil:16 | Argentina:16 | Chile:Y7 | Germany:6 | Ireland:15A | Hong Kong:IIB | Finland:K-13 | Sweden:7 | USA:R (certificate #43604) | Peru:14 | Japan:PG-12 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | UK:15 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

Was initially set to be filmed in Brazil because of security concerns in Colombia.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the Widow Nazaret takes refuge in the Ariza home and has a drink with Florentino's mother, the mother reaches over as if to replace the cork in the decanter but doesn't do so; in the following reverse shot, the cork is in the decanter, but upon cutting back to the original angle it is again out.

Quotes:

Florentino Ariza: I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-11-17)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Le Fiacre

A Successful Translation of the Book

I was primed to enjoy the film because some events in the book dovetail with my life. I wanted to see how it would be translated to film. I wasn't disappointed.

An enormous amount of the book was inside the film. Many of the comedic and tragic scenes in Garcia's book were included, well-captured by the dialog. The cinematography was a superb visual equivalent to the author's luminously written depictions of a fairytale world.

If I'd not read the book first, and if I didn't find some elements of my own life inside the book, I'm not sure what I would have made of the film. I can only base my review on the fact that I've read the book, and that the makers of the film obviously did their best to be as truthful to the book as possible. The core belief of the film as well as the book - that love, in various forms, can last a lifetime - is true.