MOVIE CONSENSUS Though beautifully filmed, the makers of Love in the Time of Cholera fail to transfer the novel's magic to the screen.
MOVIE SYNOPSIS IN THEATRES NOVEMBER 16, 2007 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. more...
MPAA RATING R, for sexual content/nudity and brief language.
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What it lacks in subtlety and cultural specificity, the film makes up for in sensitivity, sentiment and some beautifully expressed ideas drawn from Marquez's prose.
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.
Would that Newell's visual panache were as robust as his understanding of the novel's romantic implications, but what the film lacks in brio it makes up for in reverence.
Beloved book, lousy movie. He ages to 72, she stops at 35.
He stays virile, she crumbles. He cries while having sex with 600 women. He’s the only stud in the country.
No one ever said adapting Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's densely layered 1998 novel for the screen would be easy, but given the level of talent involved the awful results are still a shock.
Doubtless it's an enormously daunting task to adapt a book at once so sweeping and internal, so swooningly romantic and philosophical, but it takes a lighter touch and a more expansive view than Newell and Harwood seem to bring.
Admirers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera will be heartbroken to see how dull translators have drained the magic from his worldly romance.
This romantic drama by director Mike Newell preserves the odd playfulness of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's international best seller but sacrifices its eroticism and intricate nonlinear plotting.
The movie it requires layers of age makeup, a process that, as movie technology gets better and better, seems to get worse and worse.
What it lacks in subtlety and cultural specificity, the film makes up for in sensitivity, sentiment and some beautifully expressed ideas drawn from Marquez's prose.
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