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Initial release date	2008-03-18
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Love in the time of Cholera (DVD)

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 and daring to ask: How long would you wait for love?

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.75 inches; 0.01 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1000036654
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Color
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 19 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 18, 2008
Actors ‏ : ‎ Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ Studio Distribution Services
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0011FLH14
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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JL Britten

The best love story

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023

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I will not provide a very literary review here. I have dubbed this as my favorite romance novel. While it is nothing like most of the books often featured in this genre, it is a story of life, forgiveness, and the value of eternal love.

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John P. Jones III

A perennial theme for a new decade…

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Like many people, my introduction to the writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez was his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” which I read in the early ‘70’s, after it became available in English translation. His style was dubbed that contradiction in terms: “magical realism.” When I found “Love in the Time of Cholera” on my favorite “must read” table in my favorite, alas, now defunct, bookstore in Paris, in the 90’s, it was a “must purchase.” On Amazon I’ve reviewed “One Hundred…” in 2011. I have not yet reviewed “Love…” the book; possibly the movie will suffice. Amazon recommended it to me since the actor, Javier Bardem, who played the adult Florentino Ariza, was also in “Goya’s Ghosts.” I very much admired his performance in that movie, as well as this one. Mike Newell did an excellent job directing it. The movie was released in 2007.

Persistence, tenacity, and finally love consummated. The movie commences with Dr. Urbino’s death, who had so skillfully taken the very youthful Fermina away from the truly smitten Florentino. With Urbino’s death, Florentino can again make his pitch to Fermina, which she cruelly rejects, if for no other reason, its gauche untimeliness: the same day as the funeral! No “decent interval” for the smitten. Then the movie flashes back to their youths, in Cartagena (Columbia) in 1879. Unax Ugalde plays the youthful Florentino. Giovanna Mezzogiorno brilliantly plays Fermina.

It is a familiar tale: youthful obsession, the “writing of too many letters already,” Florentino swearing eternal fidelity and everlasting love, which is trumped by parental opposition, due to his lack of status in society. The good Dr. Urbino is a much more convenient match for the rough-hewn father, seeking societal advancement. Eventually Fermina succumbs to fatherly pressure. Somewhere in the background, as the title implies, there is cholera, “more unpredictable than war, she grabs hold, then let’s go.”

Florentino vows to remain a virgin, and will hold out ‘til Fermina is his. Like a lot of New Year’s Day resolutions…hum… and this one is first shredded on a paddle wheeler. Solace for the lovelorn is provided by philandering, and Florentino is suddenly notching bedposts, documented not as Jack Nicholson once did, by the slideshow in “Carnal Knowledge,” but in a logbook. A good thing too, since it would have taken more than one carrousel. Four figures weren’t obtained, but he got more than half way there. When Fermina finally “sees the light,” will he really tell her that he is still a virgin? And will she believe him, even when he really is a virgin to love?

Yet another familiar theme. The daughter is revolted that her mother might be in love “at her age.” The only thing Fermina regrets about her age now is that she doesn’t have the strength to give her daughter the beating she deserves!

I was truly stunned by the performance of Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Fermina, and the amazing skills of the make-up department. It took two actors to play Florentino, but she managed to play Fermina from teen-ager to 72. Flat amazing for a woman who was actually 33 when the movie was filmed. And there were nude scenes, with youthful breasts and those of 72. Body doubles? Who knows? Whatever, it was skillful, and there was always the same face. At 72 she provides that familiar lament that you will not like what you see. Au contraire, for a being who knows that wrinkles convey the true experience to be treasured, whereas smooth skin only conveys possible potential. Being a schoolmaster is attractive to some, finding a soulmate who has experienced life can be far more attractive to others.

A theme for the new “roaring ‘20’s.” 6-stars.

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Jaime S

What a movie to watch, missed it when it first came out.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023

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What a movie to watch, missed it when it first came out.

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Patricia

Great classic

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023

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This is what love supposed to be… lovely movie. Such a classic.

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Vielka N.

Timeless.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023

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One of the greatest stories of love. And it overcomes all obstacles. True love always wins.

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Love in the Time of the Cholera— a Romantic Adventure in Latin America in Ages Past

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2014

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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) is a beautiful film, a captivating story of romantic love that captures faithfully the spirit of the time. Based on the best selling novel by the Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's, the film is set in the lush tropics of South America at the turn of the 20th century. The film was directed by Mike Newell and the stars include the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, with Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt playing leading roles as well.

The cover of the DVD reads: "...An innocent desire blossoms into a romance for the ages when a youthful romantic Florentino Ariza spots the stunning and sheltered Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. Denied by her father, Florentino refuses to give up his dream of winning her hand...even if that means waiting decades to fill the passion in his heart." This is an accurate portrayal of this nostalgic film.

We are gratified that García Márquez's overt left-wing politics that go as far as supporting the totalitarian policies of the Castro brothers in Cuba do not immerse themselves in this hypnotic film epic, which is wisely devoid of political overtones. The romantic plot and deeply human characters in the novel are artistically and masterfully translated into this spellbinding film flawlessly with a full complement of Latin-American colors and flavors. I recommend this vibrant film to romantic dreamers, students of Latin American literature, drama and cinema without reservations.

Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D. is a medical historian, and an Associate Editor in Chief and World Affairs Editor of Surgical Neurology International (SNI). He is the author of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (1995) and Cuba in Revolution -- Escape From a Lost Paradise (2002).

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Stephanie Marcus

Great Book, So-So Movie

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023

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If you great the book, you will be “entertained” by the movie because it will remind you of the book. Without the book, I have no idea if anyone would actually like this movie.

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diane Vasica

It was all it should be. Will watch tonight. Get out the pop corn!.........

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023

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Used for entertinment. Just read the book and wanted to see what the movie would be like.

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Luis

Se ve muy bien

Reviewed in Mexico on August 30, 2023

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Un poco cara pero ya es difícil encontrar películas en dvd

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Gloria Attard

Watch it

Reviewed in Canada on September 17, 2020

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Great movie of never ending 💘

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Cameraman0252

MUY BUENA

Reviewed in Spain on May 14, 2018

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Muy buena película,me gusto mucho cuando la vi por primera vez.La edición es ALAMANIA pero perfecto Castellano (Español) Gracias Amazon.

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aleazim

Un envoi rapide et soigné, je n'ai pas eu le temps de regarder le film....

Reviewed in France on June 25, 2017

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Envoi rapide et soigné, mais je n'ai pas encore trouvé le temps de le regarder. J'espère ne pas être déçue par l'adaptation de ce roman que je connais par coeur.... Lu 3 fois! Certains commentaires ne vont pas dans le bon sens....

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Carl-heinrich Bock

Großes Gefühlskino

Reviewed in Germany on May 17, 2008

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"Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera", von dem Literatur-Nobelpreisträger, aus dem Jahre 1985, Gabriel García Márquez, ist einer der größten Romane des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts und gilt bis heute als eine der schönsten Liebesgeschichten der Weltliteratur. Jetzt schrieb Ronald Harwood nach dieser Romanvorlage ein berauschendes Drehbuch, das vom britischen Regisseur Mike Newell als opulentes Überwältigungsszenario im Herzen Kolumbiens inszeniert wurde. Der Produzent Scott Steindorff musste dem Schriftsteller versprechen, den Film nicht im "Hollywood-Stil" zu drehen.

Es geht um die Dauer einer Liebe und die Frage, wie lange man auf deren Erwiderung warten kann. Die Handlung beginnt um das Jahr 1880 und endet in den 1930 er Jahren. Der Augenblick, in dem sich der junge Telegrammbote Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) in die wunderschöne Fermina Daza (Giovnanna Mezzogiorno) verliebt wird sein ganzes weiteres Leben bestimmen. Zunächst schreiben sich die beiden Verliebten glühende Liebesbriefe, dann folgt der Heiratsantrag. Florentino ist ein Romantiker, den die Liebe ereilte, wie andere die Cholera. Dem Heiratsantrag stimmt der Vater von Fermina nicht zu. Sie, die Tochter aus reichem Hause, soll eine bessere Partie machen. Unter dem Druck des Vaters stimmt die junge Frau schließlich der Hochzeit mit dem weltgewandten Arzt Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) zu. Florentinos Liebe bleibt und er schwört ewige Treue. Aus der Ferne verfolgt er das Leben seiner Angebeteten. Beruflich macht er Karriere, wird schließlich Direktor der Karibischen Flussgesellschaft. Während der "Wartezeit" von 51 Jahren, neun Monaten und vier Tagen hat er sexuelle Beziehungen mit über 622 Frauen, die er meist keusch mit gesenkten Augenlidern und zunehmender Melancholie beschläft. Über diese Begegnungen führt er penibel wie ein Revisor Buch. Von diesen Liebesaffären zeigt der Regisseur 22, durch die sich Florentino stoisch hindurch kämpft. Javier Bardem ist als großer Bösewicht im Kino bekannt, ein großer Liebender ist er wahrlich nicht.

Die Schwierigkeit dieser Verfilmung ist die Bewältigung der Aufgabe, zu zeigen wie die Schauspieler im Verlauf des Films um 50 Jahre altern. Newell beweist gleich zu Beginn des Films, dass er dieses Grundproblem erkannt hat. Schon in der ersten Szene stirbt Doktor Juvenal Urbino, der Ehemann von Fermina, beim Sturz von einer Leiter. Danach erfährt Florentino, während eines gestörten und anschließend sofort unterbrochenen Geschlechtsaktes, die Todesnachricht. Die beiden Hauptfiguren begegnen sich und dabei fällt ihm die Witwe nicht um den Hals, sondern empfiehlt ihm sich zum Teufel zu scheren.

Es folgt der Rückblick über 51 Jahre, neun Monate und vier Tage. Und dann schreibt Florentino wieder Liebesbriefe, die zunächst von Fermina zerrissen werden. Schließlich lässt sie sich doch zu einem Treffen überreden. Im gereiften Alter finden die beiden bei einer Bootsfahrt im Dschungel Kolumbiens zueinander. Die Haare sind grauer, die Maske immer faltenreicher, der Gang immer gebeugter geworden, aber offensichtlich funkt es nicht richtig zwischen den Hauptdarstellern. Kahlköpfig und verholzt besteigt Florentino den Raddampfer, um sich die lange verdiente Liebesnacht mit der greisen Fermina zu erfüllen. Die Liebe bekommt eine letzte Chance. So viel zum Plot.

Resümee: In diesem sinnlichen südamerikanischem Liebesepos kommen die wichtigsten Stellen aus dem kongenialen Roman vor, nur die Geschwindigkeit mit der die Stationen abgespult werden, erweckt falsche Erwartungen, denn der Roman spielt im ausgehenden Postkutschenalter.

Natürlich verliert diese herzergreifende Literaturverfilmung als Adaption einiges vom Zauber der Literaturvorlage. Doch in den zwanzig Jahren, seit Francesco Rosis Romanverfilmung "Chronik eines angekündigten Todes", die seinerzeit in allen Kritiken verrissen wurde, sind Fortschritte bei den Adaptionsversuchen festzustellen. Newell versucht subtil die Ästhetik des karibischen "Fin de Siécle" in der brodelnden, glühenden kolumbianischen Metropole Cartagena, wie auch die Beschreibungen Márquez' minuziös wiederzugeben, in einer ansonsten eher weitschweifigen Inszenierung. Andreas Kilb spricht in seiner Kritik in der FAZ von einem "Zerrissensein zwischen Marktgängigkeit und Textreue". Ich finde an dem Film ist wenig auszusetzen. Gelungen ist der Mix aus europäischen und amerikanischen Schauspielern, die sich redlich bemühen den gewaltigen Rahmen, den Marquez in seiner Romanvorlage entfaltet hat, zu meistern. Javier Bardem weiß mit seinem seltsamen, exzentrischem Stil zu überzeugen, Benjamin Bratt spielt überzeugend elegant, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, wunderschön, harsch und spitznasig-zickig reicht allerdings bedauerlicherweise nicht an das Charisma der Romanfigur heran.

Zusammenfassend ist festzustellen: Trotz seiner hundertvierzig Kinominuten, kommt zu keiner Zeit Langeweile auf. Es ist in jeder Hinsicht ein Film für Freunde der Marquez Literatur und für ältere Jahrgänge. Bäume, Tiere, Menschen, Landschaften und Städte erstrahlen bunt, üppig grün und pittoresk und auch sonst verrät das Setdesign Liebe zum Detail, bei dem der Regisseur einen Hauch Karibik im feuchtheißen Kolumbien mit Raddampfern, Opernbühnen, Dschungellandschaften, Kostümen und der zwischendurch wütenden Cholera präsentiert. Allein der Soundtrack des kolumbianischen Gesangstars Shakira stört, denn er passt überhaupt nicht in die dargestellte Zeit.

Ein großartiger Film, den man sicher auch mehrmals sehen kann und der möglicherweise den Wunsch weckt das Buch noch einmal zu lesen.

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