Thursday, November 29, 2007

Love in the Time of Cholera


This movie is romatic drama.Florentino (Javier Bardem) spied Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), he declares his  love for her. By courting through love letters, the two grew quite fond of each other, pursuing their romance to the brink of marriage. But Fermina’s father becomes enraged and eventually promises her to another man (Benjamin Bratt), Florentino sticks to his guns, vowing that he will never give up on their love. As the decades pass, Fermina finds her marriage to be less than appetizing.

If Cholera sounds romantic,by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is a lengthy narrative, stretching over 50 years and vast emotional mileage.

As a four-hankie, expansive period romance, Cholera is a miscarriage, powerless to rise above its own creepiness which makes the movie stand back.

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