Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Réalisateur:

Mike Newell

Writers (WGA):

Ronald Harwood (screenplay)
Gabriel García Márquez (novel)

Release Date:

16 novembre 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | Romance

Accroche:

How long would you wait for love?

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Aging | Mother | Letter | Love Triangle | Tombstone

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Avis des utilisateurs:

how to render a classic novel comical

Ensemble

Benjamin Bratt	...	Dr. Juvenal Urbino
Gina Bernard Forbes	...	Digna Pardo
Giovanna Mezzogiorno	...	Fermina Urbino
Javier Bardem	...	Florentino Ariza
Marcela Mar	...	America Vicuña
Juan Ángel	...	Marco Aurelio - 40's
Liliana Gonzalez	...	Marco Aurelio’s Wife (as Liliana Alvarez Gonzalez)
Catalina Botero	...	Ofelia Urbino - 40's
Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo	...	Ofelia’s Husband
Maria Cecilia Herrera	...	Urbino's Sweet Wife
Luis Fernando Hoyos	...	Urbino Urbino
Carlos Duplat	...	Mourner
Francisco Raul Linero	...	Mourner
Unax Ugalde	...	Florentino - Teen
Liev Schreiber	...	Lotario Thugut

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Amour au temps du choléra, L' (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content/nudity and brief language.

Durée:

139 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital EX

Classification:

Argentina:16 | Chile:Y7 | Brazil:16 | Germany:6 | Ireland:15A | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Sweden:7 | USA:R (certificate #43604) | Japan:PG-12 | Finland:K-13 | Singapore:M18 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Hong Kong:IIB | Peru:14

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

Company:

New Line Cinema

Anecdotes:

The melody in the song "Hay Amores" (Bolero) sung by Shakira in this film is based on an anonymous traditional popular song called "La Panaderita" (The little baker woman) from the small town of Torrecilla en Cameros, La Rioja, Spain. Whether intentionally or by pure coincidence is not clear. The lyrics in Shakira's song are totally different, of course.

Goofs:

When Dr. Juvenal Urbino visits Florentino Ariza he asks him what kind of music Ariza likes. "The music of Carlos Gardel", Ariza answers. The time of the action is somewhere between 1890 and 1895. Gardel was born between (the date is not confirmed) 1883 and 1897. So, he was just a kid at that time, and he couldn't be known at all as the famous singer that died in a plain crash in Medellin (Colombia) in 1935, at the age of 48 or 52.

Guillemet:

Florentino Ariza: I discovered to my joy, that it is love and not death that has no limits.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-11-17)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Navidad Negra

how to render a classic novel comical

Entertaining only in that the landscape was visually beautiful and, sadly, that it presented the opportunity for friends to laugh and rip the movie apart afterward. It's a lesson in how to take a classic novel with dark moments and psychology and render it an empty shell to the point of making it more akin to a comic strip of the novel than a heartfelt cinematic interpretation. Casting was unfortunate, although I don't know how much to blame on the actors as opposed to the concept and execution of the movie. Make-up was pathetic. But go see it anyway and then read the book - or visa versa - just for the entertainment value. Laughter is good for the soul.