Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
27 %
Reviews Counted: 103 Fresh: 28 Rotten:75 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
Though beautifully filmed, the makers of Love in the Time of Cholera fail to transfer the novel's magic to the screen.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 16, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $4,584,886
Synopsis: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA straddles the line between pop and art, and manages to be both a bestseller and a literary masterpiece. With an excellent cast and a timeless story, Mike Newell's cinematic adaptation strives for that same balance. As a young man in... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo
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Reviews
Unlike the unfilmable novel, Newell’s discordant picture exhibits the worst symptoms of fever itself: unpleasant to endure and then quickly forgotten.
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05/30/08
Though Cartagena in the late 19th Century is beautifully evoked in director Mike Newell’s visually sumptuous film, there’s something missing at the core of this love story.
05/29/08
If further proof were needed of my dispiriting theory that the best novels rarely make the best films, it is to be found, richly scented and sumptuously packaged, in Love in the Time of Cholera.
05/25/08
A saga about love in the most romantic of senses, Mike Nicholls' adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' acclaimed novel is one man's ode to that ethereal emotion that is an end in itself.
05/15/08
A valiant attempt to turn a complex novel into a compelling movie is hamstrung by a conventional literary sensibility, an uneven tone and, crucially, a failure to establish a moving, meaningful connection between its two major players.
03/20/08
Never read García Márquez and still waiting for a sequel to The Notebook? There's something here for you.
03/17/08
... Newell and Harwood completely missed the mark with this one, turning a complex love story into a superficial period film with no heart or heat.
03/12/08
Listless, poorly scripted, badly acted and displaying an unforgivable misinterpretation of its source material, Cholera is easily one of the worst adaptations of a great book ever mounted.
02/28/08
El universo literario de Gabriel García Márquez como sólo Hollywood podía hacerlo: vistoso, prolijo, insípido, superficial. Ni siquiera Javier Bardem logra rescatarlo del olvido.
01/14/08
mono toy katorthoma, na se kanei na mi biazesai idiaitera na diabaseis to biblio sto opoio basizetai
01/14/08
Despite some lovely design and cinematography, Mike Newell's adaptation of the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is ruined before it can get going by some disastrous casting.
12/21/07
A novel about endless devotion has been turned into a film that seems to go on forever.
11/27/07
Is love a disease, as Marquez possibly wanted us to believe? Maybe, but in the case of this adaptation, it's more of a laughing sickness.
11/21/07
The characters are never sufficiently formed to be both likable and absurd at the same time -- and ultimately they're really neither.
11/20/07
Sometimes you’re watching a bad movie, and you’re like, 'Well, I’m still entertained,' so I’m recommending it on that sort of level.
11/19/07
Top Critic
Adaptation of Marquez masterpiece marred by absence of magical realism.
11/18/07
Sometimes it's almost impossible to translate a novel to the big screen.
11/18/07
Structurally, the film follows the story of the novel to a fine point without changing the through line of any of the three central characters as it clumsily hops from scene to scene.
11/17/07
Weirdly proposing sexual excess as the cure for unrequited love, the film has sad sack protag Bardem drowning his sorrows in an endless round of quickies with 623 faceless babes in heat.
11/17/07
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