Love in the time of Cholera
A chronicle which takes in the fifty-year period straddling the 19th and 20th centuries.
We are privy to the feelings of the central character, Fiorentino Ariza who cannot help staring at the lovely but shy Fermina Daza.
The film is framed by the accidental death from a fall out of a mango tree by the 80-year-old Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), married for a half century to the 72-year-old Fermina Daza, visited on the day of the funeral by Florentino Ariza she is enraged at the man who professes his lifetime love for her, at which point director Newell flashes back to the early courtship and proceeds through some fifty-two years of their lives.
I somehow found this movie very intriguing although it has its own highs and lows and the humoureous moments.
The locales are scenic although the makeup could have been more realistic.
Not to be watched with kids.
Good for one watch.
We are privy to the feelings of the central character, Fiorentino Ariza who cannot help staring at the lovely but shy Fermina Daza.
The film is framed by the accidental death from a fall out of a mango tree by the 80-year-old Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), married for a half century to the 72-year-old Fermina Daza, visited on the day of the funeral by Florentino Ariza she is enraged at the man who professes his lifetime love for her, at which point director Newell flashes back to the early courtship and proceeds through some fifty-two years of their lives.
I somehow found this movie very intriguing although it has its own highs and lows and the humoureous moments.
The locales are scenic although the makeup could have been more realistic.
Not to be watched with kids.
Good for one watch.
