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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) Rank 3 Reviews
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The Arizona Republic
Javier Bardem is a marvel; anyone who sees his menacing turn as a psychopathic killer in No Country for Old Men will have a hard time picturing him as a meek romantic in Love in the Time of Cholera. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The Arizona Republic
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Artfully couched in surreal absurdity, its ironies are designed to question the contradictions and weaknesses of entrenched traditions. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
San Francisco Chronicle
By following the story line of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's novel, "Love in the Time of Cholera," directed by Mike Newell, eventually arrives at a lovely place, but it arrives limping. Small but nagging ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at San Francisco Chronicle
Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
Fans of Gabriel Garcia Márquezâs best-selling novel, âLove in the Time of Cholera,â will be eager to see if the film adaptation does it justice. While it is almost impossible for any film to capture the stylistic flavor of a writerâs language, ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
Entertainment Insiders (Eric Lurio)
Ronald Harwood is not Edith Grossman. Ms. Grossman is a translator by trade and it is her interpretation of the poetic writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which have brought his works to the English-speaking world. Harwood has taken some of the poetry ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Eric Lurio)
ReelTalk (Diana Saenger)
Adapting a novel into a Hollywood film is never easy. Movie fans who havenât read the book in question may be easier to please with such a film, but die-hard readers are far more difficult to satisfy. That's the case with Love in the Time of Cholera, a ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at ReelTalk (Diana Saenger)
Screen International
Mike Newell delivers a respectable movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquezâs beloved 1985 novel, which because of its structural and temporal challenges has often been dubbed unfilmable. Newell and screenwriter Ronald Harwood remain faithful in a ver ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Screen International
Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)
Weirdly proposing sexual excess as the cure for unrequited love, the film has sad sack protag Bardem drowning his sorrows in an endless round of quickies with 623 faceless babes in heat. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)
Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
Ever since Florentino (Javier Bardem) spied Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), he declared his everlasting love for her. Courting through love letters, the two grew quite fond of each other, pursuing their romance to the brink of marriage. When Ferminaâs ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
Hopeless romantics shouldn't have problems forgiving some of the foibles and faux pas made in the telling of the story. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
The famed 1985 magical realist novel of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez gets an ambitious but off-key cinematic adaptation that trips up except in the casting of Javier Bardem as its romantically enthusiastic protagonist. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It's a scene as old as "Romeo and Juliet." A young man spies a pretty girl and vows his eternal devotion before they ever speak. In Shakespeare's play, they rendezvous in secret, consummate their love and die ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Authors have a right to be wary about how their books are adapted for the screen, but in the case of the
English-language film "Love in the Time of Cholera," Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez should
be honored and delighted indeed by the ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
New York Daily News
There's a little cholera in the middle and some love at the beginning and end, but Mike Newell's "Love in the Time of Cholera" is mostly about romantic obsession and ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at New York Daily News
Hollywood.com (Robert Sims)
The literary version of Florentino Ariza is often described as a self-made man with the heart of a poet. The same holds true for the film, but Bardem also plays Florentino as though he possesses the mind of Rain ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Hollywood.com (Robert Sims)
New York Daily News
There's a little cholera in the middle and some love at the beginning and end, but Mike Newell's "Love in the Time of Cholera" is mostly about romantic obsession and ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at New York Daily News
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Love in the Time of Cholera is a film of drawbacks and distances. The 1985 novel by the Colombian-born Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez is one of the most beloved classics of the 20th century. It was originally written in Spanish, and though the English ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Like an emerald with wings, a parrot flutters onto the branch of a mango tree, ruffling iridescent feathers on leaves the color of new lettuce. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)
A decent shot at a complex work, but ultimately, the book is way more evocative than any film. ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at Film Journal International (Lewis Beale)
The New Yorker (David Denby)
In âLove in the Time of Cholera,â Mike Newellâs adaptation of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquezâs great 1985 novel, Florentino Arizaâa hustling, excitable teen-age boy living in late-nineteenth-century Colombiaâcatches sight of a pretty rich girl, ...read the complete Love in the Time of Cholera movie review at The New Yorker (David Denby)
Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
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