Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Raped in the Dark

Heard about this book, a potboiler down in Columbia, but was pleasantly surprised, the wife and I, by an interesting story, poetic really, about a place and time, late 19th Century Latin America. The sexuality of the Columbian middle to upper classes surprised me. Normally nude scenes embarrass in mixed company. If I want porn, then okay, but posed nudes in old Columbia were beautiful, charming.

The accent thing was a bit annoying, either do it in Spanish and then overdub or get a Spanish cast to do English with heavy accents. That Alexander film with Brad Pitt doing the English accent playing a Greek. You see what I mean.

Nevertheless, once we waded into poor Florentino's unrequited love and then unlikely seductions, particularly his first experience when he is raped in the dark, fascinating.
July 21, 2008

Shame ! Garcia Marques deserved better.

I read" Love in the Times of Cholera" manny years ago. Was a very special book, wich i read in a particular moment of my life. I felt insulted for that adaptation and the lack of sensitivity and respect from the producer in having such a wrong choice for director and writer. With such a talent cast its a real shame see such a waste. Gabriel Garcia Marques, his readers and the cast deserved better... a .much better adaptation. I will read the book again to forget the movie. July 15, 2008

love in the time of cholea

Love in the Time of Cholea is boring and trashy and I would have given it less than one star if it was possible. My wife and I suffered through about 50 minutes, which seemed like an eternity, before we had enough and shut it off. The DVD was a complete waste of money. July 14, 2008

Entertainment for Adults

This film was excellent in that it wasn't filled with blood and guts and gore as are too many films being made today. It's a wonderful feel good love story that captivates the viewer (especially women) from beginning to end. Though it wanders in places the actors and cinematography validate and redeem this film. It's funny too. I was pleasantly surprised to discover just how much I liked this "sleeper" of a story.
See it and decide for yourself. It's better than most of the trash out there today. As for me, I'm buying it! July 11, 2008

2 thumbs down

I thought I was going to get an epic romance that would jerk the tears from my ducts, but not one of my eyes was moist by the end of this film. Maybe if I had read the book first, this movie would be better. The story was just blah. I get the story (it's not hard to understand), but I didn't feel the emotion or sadness or love or happiness that the characters felt throughout the entirety of the movie. I felt it a little in the beginning, but by the end I was numb. I think all the sexcapades that Florentino had just took all the emotion out of it for me. Or maybe it was Giovanna Mezzogiorno's pale, mannequin-like face. I don't know. I'll admit that the ending was sort of sweet and almost makes you want to say, "Aw, how sweet." I was just not as moved as I had hoped I would be. July 8, 2008

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