Love in the Time of Cholera Reviews and Ratings



  • November 22, 2009
    Los que leyeron la novela seguramente no quedaron conformes, por lo menos es lo que me paso a mi. No esta mal hecha pero como que no tiene fuerza. Las caracterizaciones me parecieron bastante pobres tambien.
  • November 17, 2009
    The Best for people who enjoy ROMANCE movies
  • November 11, 2009
    Tells a love story about one man's grand love for a woman who marries another. To be exact, he loved and longed for her for fifty one years, nine months and four days. Giovana Mezzogiorno's performance was amazing! Here one can view the development of her character throughout the...( read more) stages of her ilfe,from her youth through her old age. Javier Bardem is an excellent actor, carried his character well. The settings were well captured too, the very essence of Columbia, a very period feel during the 1800s. A fantastic adaptation from the book.
  • November 4, 2009
    "Hay amores que se vuelven resistentes a los daños,
    como el vino que mejora con los años,
    así crece lo que siento yo por ti."
  • October 29, 2009
    Tried to watch it, but I was just bored outta my mind.
  • October 28, 2009
    this is a beautiful love story. I prefer the book but the movie was very good too.
  • October 27, 2009
    benjamin bratt!!! XD
  • October 3, 2009
    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. However, after seeing it, I doubt what love is. I'm not sure about it now.
  • September 15, 2009
    Awful stalker flick.
  • September 13, 2009
    this movie actually made me a better gentleman, javier bardem at his best
  • September 1, 2009
    I can understand how people can jump to love to hate it, but then again most of these people have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is easy to hate himself. GGM has a very unique literary style, known as magical realism, meaning it seems real but his stories are all totally f...( read more)ull of shit and supposed to be non-human human. The film, doing its best to re-create this is not a typical movie in any way and its romantics are often times totally over the top and absurd. After a while, especially after laughing at such bits, I realized that it must certainly be a joke. so after I took the movie for a joke, I grew to enjoy it.
  • August 28, 2009
    the book is much richer and better, but the movie is also nice...
  • August 27, 2009
    what a waste of time.
  • August 24, 2009
    Interesting movie, with good acting.

    Has some memorable scenes.

    Love in the Time of Cholera is a good movie, well made, nothing more.
  • August 23, 2009
    A total and absolute masterpiece!!
    The music is perfect for the story
    the story itself makes me cry a lot and the acting is brilliant plus the make out is astonish to see Javier Bardem as a 75 year old
  • August 20, 2009
    I searched a lot after this movie. Really disappointed.
  • August 15, 2009
    I was excited about this movie because it's a latin story, my mother loved the book, but, the film could've been better. Oh, and Shakira's voice in the movie was depressing, she's a bad singer.
  • August 6, 2009
    The movie failed in numerous way to capture the main themes of the novel by being too cheesy with a strange casting, who thought that Bardem can be actually bad?
  • August 6, 2009
    Great cast but the story was remarkably un-passionate. Should have displayed more humor.
  • July 27, 2009
    In 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' Mike Newell's adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's great 1985 novel, Florentino Ariza, a hustling, excitable teen-age boy living in late-nineteenth-century Colombia-catches sight of a pretty rich girl, Fermina Daza, and falls in love with her f...( read more)orever. Some years go by, and they exchange many letters, but Florentino (Javier Bardem) loses Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) to another man, the aristocratic young doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt). Trailing around after her, Florentino languishes in his soul while carrying on innumerable meaningless affairs. We can take it on faith, I guess, that his eternal love is based on that first impression?after all, Dante claimed to be inspired his whole life by a quick look at Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight. Florentino is a bit of a poet, too, and obsession like his, one would think, is its own reward; that is, the benefit of the obsession is precisely the exquisite emotions of longing and suffering. But that?s not García Márquez?s idea. He?s a romantic, not a Freudian; and Florentino is no commonplace neurotic. The book, moving toward its triumphant conclusion, is a wonder. The long, magnificently adorned sentences?a stately river depositing alluvial riches of Colombian culture, décor, sexuality, humor, and manners into the reader?s heart?are as intoxicating a literary experience as any available to us. From New Yorker.
  • July 20, 2009
    I could stand only the beginning, I didn't like it at all. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood...
  • July 16, 2009
    i love this movie so much..
  • July 5, 2009
    Excellent choice by my wife. Thought I would hate it, but an awesome turn by Bardem as well as a warm and sometimes funny story make it compelling and charming. A truly beautiful tale.
  • July 3, 2009
    The acting is very good and so is the photography.
  • June 28, 2009
    A love TRIANGLE.... where two lovers wait out careers, marriages, affairs and deaths until they can REUNITE....
  • June 23, 2009
    con mi tarjeta dorada no me puedo comprar nada, el amor no se puede pagar
  • June 22, 2009
    I had watched this film just recently. It






    ive read the book..

    ive always imagined it in a movie.

    now its for real.

    wonderful.
  • June 21, 2009
    Yeah...this is LOVE!
  • June 6, 2009
    well...Garcia Marquez...mmmm
  • May 27, 2009
    come on bardem it's just too good looking for the part ....and they didn'y even aged at all!! phff
  • May 27, 2009
    Nice... probably a bit boring. And not enough Liev Schreiber in it!
  • May 19, 2009
    I love this movie! ^_^
  • May 14, 2009
    Bardem plays a mild mannered man hopelessly in love with a woman his entire life and living on the fringes of hers just to be near her. Unrequited love can be deep and devastating and makes for a good tear-jerker; but for some reason in this case I was like, "ehhh who cares". T...( read more)his wasn't bad and had some nice performances but over-all left me somewhat disappointed.
  • May 6, 2009
    I hate the casts and the story and most of all the make up.. shit. what an annoying movie..
  • May 4, 2009
    si les gusta llorar veanla
  • May 4, 2009
    I enjoyed very much, a powerfull love story crossing time and prejudice, powerfull images, a movie to see with a all package of tissues :)
  • May 3, 2009
    2 stars for Javier Bardem (damn, that man can act!) and 1 star for the cinematography, costumes, and sets. But, overall, it felt rushed and badly edited. I imagine the book will be far superior...this has gotten me interested in reading it.
  • May 1, 2009
    Great movie. It was awesome. It was total bullshit though, like why would he wait that long for her. And then tell her that he remained a virgin, yeah right, lol. Great movie, long but worth watching.
  • April 29, 2009
    disturbinng!! i wasnt even able to see all the film....
  • April 28, 2009
    I. e. L'amore ai tempi del colera
  • April 19, 2009
    If you already read the book, then you may better not watch this film... but if you watched it without having read the book, please go and grab a copy.

    Shame it's not a fair adaptation, really...

    Weak.
  • April 15, 2009
    romantic lines!!!!!!!
    a man who waited 52 years of his life for the woman he truly loves!!!!
  • April 11, 2009
    I thought it was very well done.
  • April 10, 2009
    I liked the acting and the music. In my opinion, the director did a very good job . Of course, I believe that the makeup was not that good... As for the characters, I cannot say that I liked Florentino... He was obssesed with her! I don't think he really loved her...
  • April 8, 2009
    My only complaint was the acting wasn't passionate enough.
  • April 6, 2009
    Not the best but it had its moments
  • March 30, 2009
    Recommended by JDFortuneFan.

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