Love In The Time Of Cholera Page #3

Synopsis: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She's soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino's fall, are Ariza's hopes delusional?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mike Newell
Production: New Line Cinema
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
R
Year:
2007
139 min
$4,584,886
Website
508 Views


Take it to him now.

- What is this?

- They leaving.

They going

to the country.

- Hurry up!

- Where are you going?

He's taking me away.

- Sit down!

- Fermina.

Don't you dare

talk to him!

- Where are you talking her?

- He's taking me away!

Get out of our way.

Hyah!

Hyah!

Get back.

Get back.

I think of you

every day

I think of you

a little bit more

I tear my reason apart

Something inside me

gets destroyed

C'mon, mule.

I think of you

every day

I think of you

a little bit more

And I keep

thinking of you

And I keep

thinking.

- That's bad. Five more.

- Take away all I have, right?

Aunt Fermina!

Senora, may I help you?

Hi, princess,

What are you here for?

Cousin Fermina?

I have a surprise for you.

Cousin.

He wants me to fix

a wedding date.

- Will you?

- Of course.

- Excuse me, Senoritas.

- Make it well into the future.

Your father said he will

keep you here for a year at least.

A year is nothing.

We will exchange telegrams

as we used to exchange

letters.

And our love will triumph.

There is no man on Earth more

perfect than Florentino Ariza.

And you, Hildebranda,

are you in love?

A married man.

Do you

exchange letters?

No.

Secret glances.

It all seems difficult

and impossible now,

but I just know that we must

learn to be happy without love.

And in spite of it.

Happy without love?

Yes.

Happy without love.

I want to eat the tender flesh

of every word

she has written to me

over and over.

I hope I survive.

- But danger is everywhere.

- Fire!

If the suffering of your own

heart doesn't kill you,

the ever-recurring

civil war might.

And there is the disease

that comes between

the burst of bloodshed,

the deadly choking embrace

of cholera.

Dead collectors!

My daughter is...

She is even more impossible

to predict than war.

She grabs hold,

then suddenly she lets go.

- Daddy! He's dead, too.

- She grabs hold,

she lets go.

Florentino!

Up here!

Stop it, stop it.

It will be all three of you, I promise.

All in good time.

So which one

is it going to be?

No no, my beloved

is returning soon.

I have to keep myself pure.

And I will only lose

my virginity for love.

Oooh.

That is such a bad idea.

Don't go, Florentino.

I will be back...

but not for some time.

Let's go, let's go.

So the worst years

of my life passed.

I counted the eternal minutes

one by one

as I waited for her return.

But I do not mind.

I will keep watch

for all of eternity.

I will keep watch

until I die if need be.

I stand vigil for her

beside the lighthouse.

My heart is like the sea...

endless and everlasting,

even while it is as turbulent

as the crashing waves.

Florentino, what are

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Ronald Harwood

Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). more…

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