Review of Love In The Time Of Cholera

Mike Newell delivers a respectable movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s beloved 1985 novel, which because of its structural and temporal challenges has often been dubbed unfilmable. Newell and screenwriter Ronald Harwood remain faithful in a very literal sense to the narrative of the novel, and if they fail to translate the sweet melancholy and romantic soul at the heart of Marquez’s prose, they succeed in producing a solid romantic film which will satisfy older adult audiences.

The production ran the risk of being one of those awful multi-national soufflés like The House Of The Spirits or The Bridge At San Luis Rey where American actors talk English with ropey foreign accents and the very core of the source books are betrayed. Cholera just about overcomes those dangers by employing Latin actors – Spanish, Italian, Latino Americans and Latin Americans – even though their thickly accented English is often grating.”*

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