Love in the Time of Cholera

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart., One of literature’s greatest love stories becomes an affecting and evocative period piece adapted from Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel. Javier Bardem stars as a jilted Colombian with a lifelong passion for one beautiful woman (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), whose class-conscious father (John Leguizamo) has forced to marry a wealthy doctor (Benjamin Bratt). Unax Ugalde portrays Bardem’s character as a teen. Directed by Mike Newell from a script by Ronald Harwood., Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s novel of the same name, director Mike Newell’s Love in the Time of Cholera details a passionate love triangle that unfolds in turn-of-the-century South America. Oscar-winning Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood adapts the story of two young lovers who bide their time for years while anxiously awaiting the day they can finally be together. Through marriages, affairs, careers, and deaths, the couple never loses hope that destiny will unite them in the end.