CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

rogerdarlington The novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez was first published in Spanish in 1985 and this English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007. As the title makes clear, this is a love story, but what makes it different is the time (roughly 1880-1930), the place (unnamed in the novel but identified in the film as the Colombian city of Cartagena) and the postponed consummation (only after half a century do the lovers finally fulfil their dreams). The main characters are the alluring Fermina Daza (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and the lovelorn Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) although Fermina's husband Doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) has a key role. I have no idea how faithful the film is to the book, but I enjoyed this cinematic adaptation - somewhat languid in the telling but beautifully shot and well-acted - and it has given me a desire to visit the historic, walled city of Cartagena where much of it was shot.

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carolmillerg Books can be good or bad, what counts in a film are the characters and the visual impact as the script unfolds. This is a glorious movie, the star is not the book but Cartagena, the landscape and a time frame, revealed in the costumes, the production, the streets and buildings, the intimacy of the interiors of a diversity of dwellings. As much as I love the literature of García Márquez and adored the book it only provides the essential premise, which is totally machismo and completely tongue in cheek. Only a male would assert the purity of heart of another male, who has seduced or been seduced by 622 women while preserving his unblemished love for an inaccessible childhood sweetheart. Good casting, good direction, wonderful music. This is a great movie experience.

violejcrow This film relates accurately the main events that compose the story, but fails to reflect the ironies and motifs that make the novel so elaborate and engaging. Florentino's courtship of Fermina, the obstacles they face and the resolution of their love affair are clearly depicted in the film, but some of the emotions and reactions that the characters experience are not portrayed in the film and therefore the story lacks some of the meaning that the author implied in his writings. The writing style of García Márquez is very complex and therefore very difficult to capture in film; the use of a narrator could have helped to illustrate some of the highlights of the book that the film lacks. This film is worthwhile after having read the book; otherwise it is just a love story full of eccentric characters and fantasy worthy of Hollywood, with an intriguing but predictable series of events and a happy ending.