In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate.In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate.In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate.
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10Ghostttw
Spellbinding. A visual marvel and a philosophical masterpiece. Pure magic. So light and easy to watch, yet so very deep. An adaptation that definitely does justice to the source material. I wish I could speak Spanish as I am sure it's way better in the original language, but it's quite mesmerizing in English. Not to mention how gorgeous the cast is. Simply amazing. It's a near perfect translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Magnum Opus: Cien años de Soledad. Beautiful cinematography, enigmatic and interesting plot, insanely written characters, a love letter to Gabriel!. It made me go read the book again after decades.
10gennkrav
Pure joy watching this cinematic Colombian marvel. Screen adaptation exceeded my expectations and eliminated all fears about potential disastrous attempt to make a decent movie out of a so-cold "unfilmable" novel. Looks absolutely authentic and magical to my eyes. Bravo to Colombian creators and Colombian crew for very attentive, careful and delicate adaptation o[f one of the most beautiful novels ever written!
Cinematographic work is outstanding and displays beauty of Colombia very vividly. Costumes, colonial architecture, interior design of the buildings and carefully chosen music portrait altogether unforgettable atmosphere of Colombian magic in every and each detail.
Cinematographic work is outstanding and displays beauty of Colombia very vividly. Costumes, colonial architecture, interior design of the buildings and carefully chosen music portrait altogether unforgettable atmosphere of Colombian magic in every and each detail.
Adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude into a cinematic work appears to be an extremely difficult task for two main reasons.
First, this novel belongs to a specific literary movement, pioneered by South American writers, particularly Gabriel García Márquez, where the story is narrated through the blending of reality and fantasy. At times, this fusion is so intense that separating the two seems impossible. Naturally, translating such scenes into cinema risks making them appear absurd and failing to achieve a satisfactory cinematic form. However, watching the first episode of the series One Hundred Years of Solitude revealed that the creators managed to convey this magical and surreal feeling to the audience without making it seem ridiculous.
The second reason is the inherent complexity of the novel. One Hundred Years of Solitude is challenging to read due to its repeated use of identical names for different characters, as well as its non-linear narrative and frequent disruptions of the timeline. These elements may exhaust the reader. Fortunately, such issues are absent in the series, which has successfully transformed the non-linear narrative into a linear one, allowing it to establish a strong connection with the audience.
First, this novel belongs to a specific literary movement, pioneered by South American writers, particularly Gabriel García Márquez, where the story is narrated through the blending of reality and fantasy. At times, this fusion is so intense that separating the two seems impossible. Naturally, translating such scenes into cinema risks making them appear absurd and failing to achieve a satisfactory cinematic form. However, watching the first episode of the series One Hundred Years of Solitude revealed that the creators managed to convey this magical and surreal feeling to the audience without making it seem ridiculous.
The second reason is the inherent complexity of the novel. One Hundred Years of Solitude is challenging to read due to its repeated use of identical names for different characters, as well as its non-linear narrative and frequent disruptions of the timeline. These elements may exhaust the reader. Fortunately, such issues are absent in the series, which has successfully transformed the non-linear narrative into a linear one, allowing it to establish a strong connection with the audience.
10Twi12
It's an excellent adaptation. We start with an amazing Photography, good representation of the scenarios and creative direction with an approach that respects the original work. They also adapts the events of the book with dedication, and makes use of resources such as conceptual shots to add to the narrative. At the same time it respects in the ethnic and cultural aspect what Colombia is, as a people and society. Traditions, music, food and diversity of races are part of what the Macondo universe is, as well as the history that makes up the years of a violent past in Colombia. This gives way to what is its chronology, which is perfectly threaded, which results in a somewhat different product in its content, but not in a negative connotation for the development of the story. It is, in fact, a work with a lot of dedication, and pretty faithful that evokes the nostalgia of what is a hundred years of solitude and the artistic impact that it had for subsequent generations influenced by Latin American literature and the work of García Marquez.
100 años de soledad is one of the great summits of literature in Spanish language. Its style is unparalleled and its scope is beyond imagination. Its characters are so well portrayed that any screenwriter would have no problem to write them for the screen. But the apparently unsurmountable problem to adapt the novel was its duration. To compress one hundred years of family and national history was an impossible task. After almost 60 years since its publication the novel has found a cinematographic home in Netflix. Only streaming can do it justice, and the 2 first episodes are really promising. Great photography, art direction and respect to the characters. The voice over is necessary to let the wonderful prose of García Marquez emerge from time to time. The plot evolves smoothly with richness and depth. I love it, and I was a bit skeptical that GGM's magic world could be translated to the screen. Wall, so far it's a success in my book.
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- TriviaThis is Netflix's most expensive Latin American-made project to date, with Colombian groups and indigenous communities constructing props and sets for the series.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Radio Dolin: The Results of 2024. The Best Films of the Year (2024)
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