Love in the Time of Cholera (film)

Love in the Time of Cholera ( Love in the Time of Cholera ) is an American film drama from the year 2007. Directed by Mike Newell, the screenplay was written by Ronald Harwood after the 1985 novel, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez written.

Action

The action begins in 1880 in the Colombian port city of Cartagena and ends up there in the 1930s. The young telegraph messenger Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a nouveau riche mule trader. Love is initially based on reciprocity and the secret sharing large letters, even a marriage proposal Flore Tinos takes Fermina at. But when her father learns of the relationship, he threatens Florentino to shoot him if he did not keep away from her daughter. Florentino is unimpressed and swears eternal fidelity to his sweetheart. This is then sent by his father to live with relatives in the hinterland, where Florentino keeps secret about the local telegraph station contacted her. When she finally returns to the city, she says Florentino at a meeting on the market, their love is suddenly extinguished at the reunion and therefore have been only an illusion ( for them).

Fermina marries the doctor Juvenal Urbino respected, while that of lovesickness troubled Florentino initially no fixed relationship, but shorter and longer affairs arrives and, succeeding his uncle ( the brother of his father's illegitimate ) president of the local river shipping company is. , 51 years after Florentino Tinos allegiance eventually dies Juvenal Urbino in an attempt to capture its entflogenen parrot ( the opening sequence of the film). Thereupon Florentino, Fermina approaches again and wins her affection again - to the indignation of her daughter. After frequent meetings both suddenly decide on an outgoing steamer, on the Ariza has a presidential suite can be set up, eight days up the river and five to go back downstream. Here it comes to their physical union. At the start of the return trip Ariza decides to take no passengers and no cargo and explains the ship attacked by cholera. The black-yellow flag is hoisted and the ship is under quarantine with only two passengers for an indefinite period on the river. Thus ends the film.

Reviews

Sura Wood wrote in the magazine The Hollywood Reporter, 12 November 2007, the film is ambitious but disappointing. The adaptation lose on the screen some of the magic of the original literary work.

FAZ According to Andreas Kilb from the director in dealing with the monumental artwork and especially the narrated time ultimately failed, the rush would not be appropriate to the setting and the era. Javier Bardem was miscast, the expense of the film but impressive. In addition, Kilb provides a " Zerrissensein between marketability and faithfulness to the text ."

Background

The film was (mainly in Cartagena de Indias and in small parts in Mompós ) filmed in England and in Colombia. His cost of production was estimated at 45 million U.S. dollars. Of this cost, the right of the screen adaptation of the novel three million U.S. dollars; also promised the producer Scott Steinsdorff the writer, turning to the film not in the "Hollywood - style " ("I gave him my word did I would not ' Hollywood -ize ' it ").

The film had its world premiere on October 4, 2007 at the Festival do Rio. On 11 November 2007, a demonstration was held at the AFI Film Festival. The wide release in the United States launched on 16 November 2007, in Germany, she launched on 21 February 2008. Until 20 December 2007, the film played in the cinemas of the United States about 4.6 million U.S. dollars. Revenue in Italy, Spain and Mexico were, however, each of a similar amount. In some Latin American countries, the film was also successful.

In the German Free-TV film was seen on 2 September 2010 for the first time in the ARD.

Criticism mirror

Mixed

  • Epd Film No. 2/ 2008, pp. 41 (landscapes, equipment and costumes are a feast for the eyes, character development over time consistency across very credible )
  • The World, February 20, 2008, page 36, by Ulrike Mau ( to thoughtful narrative pace, but Bardem watching amusing )

Slightly negative

  • Cinema No 3/2008, p 70, by Karl- Heinz Schäfer ( homespun Director, soulless film can not feel any emotions and bored dignified in excess length, Bardem miscast )

Negative

  • Filmdienst No. 4/ 2008, pp. 26-27, by Alexandra wax ( negative; great venues and decor, but reduces the novel inadmissible on outdated heartbreak story, in places like telenovela )
  • Focus, February 18, 2008, p 78 ( "Disappointing" )
  • The mirror 18 February 2008, p 146 ( "failed"; telenovela - level miscast with Bardem, kitschy costume orgy )
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