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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) Rank 2 Reviews
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Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Bardem, Elizondo, Bratt and Moreno bring enough to the banquet to make this feast worth sitting through, and best of all, make you want to read the book, Oprah endorsement or no. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
HollywoodChicago.com (Dustin Levell)
Movies for Guys (Mack Guffin)
Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquezâs distinctively-titled 1985 book, which girls I knew in college tended to have on their bookshelf right next to their Anne Rice porn, this is the story of two star-crossed lovers in Columbia that begins in 1880. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Movies for Guys (Mack Guffin)
MovieWeb (Francine Brokaw)
The popular book is brought to the big screen in a magnificent story of love starring Javier Bardem as Florentino Ariza, a telegraph clerk who's life changes the moment he sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). They begin to communicate via letters ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at MovieWeb (Francine Brokaw)
Cinema Blend
You know somethingâs wrong when the audience erupts in laughter during one of the most passionate moments of âthe greatest love story ever told.â Sadly, Mike Newellâs adaptation of the classic novel Love in the Time of Cholera, is rife with ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Cinema Blend
KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
The protagonist exhibits extraordinary loyalty and patience. But you may need to borrow some. You'll need extreme stick-to-itiveness to slog through this handsome but seemingly endless romance-a-thon.
Love in the Time of Cholera is a sprawling saga of ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at KYW Newsradio (Bill Wine)
The Onion A.V. Club
It's never easy translating a book into a film, which is probably why so many adaptations fall into a default mode of handsome sloggery. Get the plot up on the screen, fill it with acclaimed actors and pretty production design, and the rest, the logic ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Boston Globe
During a moment intended as poignant in the silly new film of "Love in the Time of Cholera," 70-something Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) asks her long-lost love, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem), to avert his eyes as she disrobes. Why, he asks. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Boston Globe
New York Post (Kyle Smith)
Did "Gone With the Wind" have more than three characters who mattered? Did you know the name of the war everyone was fighting? Did the breathtakingly romantic love scene ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at New York Post (Kyle Smith)
The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Oh, it seems churlish and petty not to praise this movie to the heavens. But I canât do it. I just ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Based on the novel by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera follows hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) as he spends a lifetime pining for lost love Fermina Urbino (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). Though the film's two stars are ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
I'm not sure that any of the characters in the movie really understood anything about love. Florentino talks about love a lot, and he is portrayed in a positive light, but his behavior is very opposite of biblical love, which is laying your life down for ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Houston Community Newspapers (Gary Brown)
Here we go again. Along comes the cinematic translation of a popular romantic novel, an Oprah Book Club selection that sinks to the bottom like an overloaded steamboat.
Iâm referring to âLove in the Time of Cholera,â which opened the other ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Houston Community Newspapers (Gary Brown)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
The magic and involved character development of the novel perhaps got lost in efforts to bring all 350 pages of the book to the big screen. The good news is that it is a beautiful picture to watch (cinematographer Affonso Beato). You can enjoy it if you ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
The Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Some books put up one hell of a fight on the way to the multiplex, and theyâre not always the ones youâd expect. Ever since âThe Diving Bell and the Butterflyâ premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, much has been written about the difficulty of ad ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Love in the Time of Cholera lacks the lyrical grace and mesmerizing quality of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's classic novel.
The film version, as ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Mike Newell's version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez highly acclaimed erotic novel is one of his worst films: listless, poorly mounted, badly scripted by Ronald Harwood, and weakly acted, even by such pros as Javier Bardem. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Variety
While seemingly impossible-to-film novels are being gracefully nurtured for the screen this season ("Atonement," "The Kite Runner," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's much-adored "Love in the Time of Cholera" has been given a ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Variety
Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
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. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Lush, extravagant, sad and touching, Love in the Time of Cholera still feels weirdly insubstantial when all the febrile passion has abated. Like a fever it breaks, passes and is forgotten. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Marquez' material is endearing when read, but it can be embarrassing to watch. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
It's the actors themselves who all too often feel out of place. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
About.com (Rebecca Murray)
a surprisingly passionless love story ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at About.com (Rebecca Murray)
The Globe and Mail
It's not surprising to learn that anyone foolish enough to try conjuring a moving picture out of feverish love letters and the 50-year journey of mending hearts made a soggy ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The Globe and Mail
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Newell has done some fine work in all sorts of genres, from Four Weddings and a Funeral to Harry Potter , but in Cholera he seems to be chronicling a half-century of events, passions and desires as a tourist, not a native. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Los Angeles Times (Carina Chocano)
SINCE Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez first published "Love in the Time of Cholera" internationally in 1988, he is said to have declined, much like a character in one of his books, something on the order of 50 offers to turn the novel into a film. Part of his ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Los Angeles Times (Carina Chocano)
The New York Times
âLove in the Time of Choleraâ sets itself the elusive task of translating Gabriel GarcÃa Márquezâs masterpiece of magical realism into an upscale art film with popular appeal. Faithful to the outline of the novel but emotionally and spiritually an ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The New York Times
The Hollywood Reporter
"Love in the Time of Cholera," Mike Newell's handsomely appointed but disappointing adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's complicated, sprawling novel retains the essential flavor of the book. Audiences are likely to split into two camps: Fans will ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
ShowBizCafe.com (Axel Flowers)
Cuánto esperaba yo que El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera âestremeciera los cimientosâ de la sala de cine donde me senté a verla. Como cineasta colombiano de la región costera, y amante a las obras de Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, añoraba ver un filme ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at ShowBizCafe.com (Axel Flowers)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
My classical education is, admittedly, a little lacking. Iâve never seen âCitizen Kaneâ on the big screen, never attended a ballgame at Wrigley Field, and Iâve never read Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Márquezâs much-lauded story o ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Apparently cholera is the world's only disease at the time, which allows Florentino to sleep with more than 600 women and remain STD-free. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
ReelzChannel (Heather Huntington)
In Love in the Time of Cholera, director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) attempts to bring Gabriel Garcia Marquez's popular novel about a sweeping love triangle in turn-of-the-century Columbia to the screen. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at ReelzChannel (Heather Huntington)
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Love in the Time of Cholera" is so lifeless and flat that watching it feels like a hundred years of ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Richmond Times-Dispatch
New York Press (Eric Kohn)
Despite its temporal range, the biggest pratfall of the movie is its outdated aura. Newell gives us fabulous scenery and a classic narrative, but none of it becomes involving in the present. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at New York Press (Eric Kohn)
Orlando Weekly (John Thomason)
Oh, dear. What literary giant has the unstoppable Hollywood machine gone and tarnished now? That would be Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. The grandfather of magic realism is given a clumsy, saccharine and unsubtle treatment with a Love in the Time of Cholera ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Orlando Weekly (John Thomason)
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Directed by Mike Newell (Mona Lisa Smile) and adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquezâ novel by Ronald Harwood (Being Julia), Love in the Time of Cholera is a surprisingly passionless love story. Flitting back and forth between five decades and littered wit ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Film School Rejects (Nate Deen)
Love in the Time of Cholera is a gorgeous disaster of a film. The movie is filled with some rich visuals and scenery, but that is about the only good quality that can be said of it. Director Mike Newell, after making one of 2005âs best films with Harry ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Film School Rejects (Nate Deen)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Much of the great joy of reading an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the fact that you're reading him -- that you're allowing yourself to become engrossed in his florid phrasing and vivid descriptions, that he's offering to take you to a ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
The scent of bitter almonds, so familiar and meaningful to love-struck Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) in Love in the Time of Cholera, has been replaced by the smell of a torched opportunity. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
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