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We had high hopes for the film version of Garcia Marquez’s classic novel Love in the Time of Cholera. I mean it stars Javi Bardem! And while I was all revved up to see it tonight, I am flaking at the last minute. The reviews are so very gruesome that I don’t feel like ruining my entire weekend lamenting how they’ve massacred a great book. Salon gently recommends: “Gabriel García Márquez fans — and pretty much everyone else — should avoid this stink bomb like the plague.” Whoa.

It gets worse:

Forget the exhausted argument that no movie adaptation can ever match the pleasure of reading: Once fans of Latin American novelist Gabriel García Márquez get a load of the stink-burger Newell has made out of this much-adored book, there’ll be rioting, firebombs and general mayhem. Or at least many indignant snorts.

The New York Times was a bit more subtle, but still not very generous:

Faithful to the outline of the novel but emotionally and spiritually anemic, it slides into the void between art and entertainment, where well-intended would-be screen epics often land with a thud.

At least in that review, Javi gets props.

So I won’t be checking it out tonight. I’ll rely on you readers with a stronger stomach to tell me what you think of it. Leave your reviews in the comments section and please convince that I am making a mistake.

Via / Salon and NY Times

Love in the Time of Cholera Trailer

2:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Movies| Music · 1 Comment

5 Nov 2007

Love in the Time of Cholera is my favorite Gabriel Garcia Marquez book (in spite of Oprah’s book club ). The trailer certainly entices me to see the film and I love the Shakira song in the background.

Maria_N.jpgProducers of the screen version of García Márquez’s classic Love in the Time of Choleraslated to being filming soon with Spanish actor Javier Bardem — are said to be courting Colombian Oscar winner Carolina Sandino Moreno for the role of Hildebranda:

Catalina Sandino Moreno, an Oscar nominee for her film debut in “Maria Full of Grace,” is in talks to join the cast of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” based on the novel by Nobel laureate and fellow Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Sandino Moreno will also star in the screen version of the bestseller Fast Food Nation, set to be released this year.

Via / Hollywood Reporter

bard4.jpgSpanish uber-hottie Javier Bardem has been tapped to star in the film version of Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”:

En su rol, Bardem personificará a un romántico joven que pierde a la mujer de sus sueños por culpa de un millonario que logra conquistarla. Y que durante los siguientes 50 años se empecina en lograr estatus y reputación con la esperanza de algún día tenerla.

Bardem will play the starring role in the film, after producers finally convinced Garcia Marquez to allow his book to be adapted for film. Filming starts this year in Central and South American locations.

Bardem is the first Spaniard ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, for his portrayal of Cuban exile poet Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls.

Via / People en Español


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