Love in the Time of Cholera
Liev Schreiber, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt
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.
DVD Released: March 18, 2008
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June 1, 2009You 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 more )
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March 29, 2009An enchanting story which doesn't deliver quite as much as it should. The cinematography is excellent and the acting is well done. The script is a bit long, the title is horrible and the make-up suffered in some areas. Mezzogiomo didn't capture the essence of her character for... ...( read more )
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February 28, 2009Love 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 more )
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June 5, 2008This 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 more )
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June 28, 2009A love TRIANGLE.... where two lovers wait out careers, marriages, affairs and deaths until they can REUNITE....
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November 16, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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
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
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
November 16, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Is there another great modern writer so hard to translate successfully into cinema? full review
November 15, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Though Love is a handsome production, it lacks the novel's distinctive blend of passionate intensity and fanciful whimsy. full review
November 15, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Forget the heat of passion: The movie never breaks a sweat. full review
November 15, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The overambitious script [tries] to hold onto too much of the sprawling novel. full review
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January 12, 2009I have read the book. Rented the movie, it was incredible. Very passionatly enchanting. "How long will you wait for love?"..... Forever.
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November 12, 2007HELLA WANNA SEE iT......i'VE HEARD iT SO ROMANTiC..WHiCH iS WHAT i NEED.............
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October 18, 2007Garcia Marquez is one of the most important authors. I read all his novels. This one is fabolous. But I prefer the movie be interpreted by Latin Actors.
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October 18, 2007
I read the novel, and is one of my favorities. But i don even imagine it in English.
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April 11, 2007This book is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, colombian writer. Definitely will see it!
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