Fresh
Sometimes you're watching a bad movie, and you're like, 'Well, I'm still entertained,' so I'm recommending it on that sort of level.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Love in the Time of Cholera
How long would you wait for love?
2007 · 2h 19m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Mike Newell
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Overview
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
Director and cast
- Mike Newell Director
- Javier Bardem as Florentino Ariza
- Unax Ugalde as junger Florentino
- Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Fermina Daza
- Benjamin Bratt as Juvenal Urbino
- John Leguizamo as Lorenzo Daza
- Fernanda Montenegro as Transito Ariza
- Catalina Sandino Moreno as Hildebranda Sanchez
- Alicia Borrachero as Escolastica
- Liev Schreiber as Lotario Thurgot
- Laura Harring as Sara Noriega
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
25%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mike Newell's handsome adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novel looks lovely, but feels lifeless; the chemistry between the main characters just isn't there.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
[Actress Mezzogiorno] finds the story's emotion by resisting the tug of the movie into grandeur.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Bardem's hypnotic presence, like that of an Easter Island statue come to life, is one of the film's many pleasures. As is its intimations of a love everlasting.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
There isn't an actor here who really connects.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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