L'amour aux temps du choléra

Original title: Love in the Time of Cholera

2007
R
2h 19m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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Drama Romance

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

Director
- Mike Newell
Writers
- Ronald Harwood
- Gabriel García Márquez
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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

25K

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Director
- Mike Newell
Writers
- Ronald Harwood
- Gabriel García Márquez
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 8 nominations total

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Love in the Time of Cholera

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Trivia
Producer Scott Steindorff spent over three years courting Gabriel García Márquez for the rights to the book telling him that he was Florentino and wouldn't give up until he got the rights.

Goofs
The trip that Florentino Ariza takes upriver where he experiences his first 'tryst', prominently features a zipper being (un)zipped. Since the zipper was not invented until 1913, nor patented until 1916, this would have been some feat.

Quotes
Florentino Ariza: Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

Connections
Featured in HBO First Look: The Making of 'Love in the Time of Cholera' (2007)

Soundtracks
Despedida
Music by Shakira and Antonio Pinto
Lyrics by Shakira
Produced by Shakira
Co-produced by Pedro Aznar
Performed by Shakira

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Featured review

6/10

Brilliant book, mediocre movie

To begin with, it's challenging to make a movie out of a brilliant book. Yet: the acting is very bad, appart from Bardem, which made it somehow to fit a character that is miles away ( even physically) of what he seems to be in real life. Some dialogues were changed from the book just for the sake of change, I guess, losing their beauty and meaning. Make up is bad - appart from, again, Bardem's, not to say that the casting in itself is pretty uninspired - appart from those in Florentino and Transito. All in all you can say it's Bardem's movie on a great Shakira music. But that's not the spirit of the book.