Love in the Time of Cholera
When Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) through a villa window, it is love at first sight. But when rejected, he devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
16 February 1977, Cali, Colombia
3 March 1964, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
22 July 1964, Bogotá, Colombia
29 November 1970, Houston, Texas, USA
16 October 1929, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1 May 1980, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
September 02, 2008
A hodge-podge of histrionic, ridiculous scenes cobbled together with no build up.
November 19, 2007
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.
November 16, 2007
There isn't an actor here who really connects.
July 31, 2008
No, Love in the Time of Cholera is not the masterpiece that its source material is, but by choosing not to top the original it still ends up mostly succeeding as a film.
August 24, 2009
Film in the Time of Oprah is more like it.
January 29, 2008
It's all yodeling Shakira ballads and emotional shots of the would-be lovers staring at each other until their cheeks pale from exhaustion
November 16, 2007
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.
December 27, 2008
One can recognize the elements that made the book such a beloved work--and see how these elements are so completely botched in screen translation.
November 16, 2007
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.
May 30, 2008
Unlike the unfilmable novel, Newell's discordant picture exhibits the worst symptoms of fever itself: unpleasant to endure and then quickly forgotten.
November 16, 2007
[Actress Mezzogiorno] finds the story's emotion by resisting the tug of the movie into grandeur.

