Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) on Netflix
In late 19th-century Cartagena, telegraph boy Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza. They secretly correspond until her father discovers the relationship and sends her away.
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- IMDb6.4/1024,958 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes27%
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Plot summary
At the end of the 19th century in Cartagena, a marine port in Colombia, Florentino Ariza falls in love at first sight of Fermina Daza. They secretly correspond and she eventually agrees to marry but her father discovers their relationship and sends her to distant relatives. When she returns some years later, Fermina agrees to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, her father's choice. Their fifty year marriage is marked by roughly equal amounts of love and anger. Fermina's marriage devastates Florentino, but his mother throws a willing widow into his bed and he discovers that sex is a very good pain reliever. He begins to number and describe each of his women, beginning with #1, the widow, and eventually has over 600 names and notes. He also decides to be as successful and rich as Dr. Urbino and, when the doctor dies suddenly, immediately renews his courtship of Fermina.
Cast
- Catalina Boteroas Ofelia Urbino - 40's
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- Gina Bernard Forbesas Digna Pardo
- Juan Ángelas Marco Aurelio - 40's
- Liliana Gonzalezas Marco Aurelio's Wife (as Liliana Alvarez Gonzalez)
- Miguel Angel Pazos Galindoas Ofelia's Husband
- Maria Cecilia Herreraas Urbino's Sweet Wife
- Carlos Duplatas Mourner
- Francisco Raul Lineroas Mourner
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
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- An unreleased final edition of the film was shown to Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico and, at the end of the film, the author is said to have exclaimed “Bravo!” with a smile on his face.
- Love in the Time of Cholera was the first filming of a García Márquez novel by a Hollywood studio, rather than by Latin American or Italian directors.
- The London-based animation studio VooDooDog created the title and end sequences, studying time-lapse flowers footage to get the twisting feeling of the tendrils and flowers opening before committing to the hand painting stage, rather than just making a straight computerised sequence.
- The film was the first English-language work for the Academy Award-nominated Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, who portrays Tránsito Ariza in it.
