No one ever said adapting Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's densely layered 1998 novel for the screen would be easy, but given the level of talent involved — star Javier Bardem, director Mike Newell, screenwriter Ronald Harwood — the awful results are still a shock.
Cartagena, Colombia: No sooner is recently deceased society doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) laid in his coffin than riverboat magnate Florentino Ariza (Bardem) appears before Dr. Urbino's widow, Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), with the message he's been waiting 51 years, nine months and four days to deliver: He vows eternal fidelity and everlasting love. Fermina cur...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
133 mins