Love in the Time of Cholera Details

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[Highly rated reviewer]

Makes Eastenders Look Good

Must be in the running for the worst-movie of 2008.

Telegraph-operator [morse-code] Unax Ugalde [Goyas Ghosts] falls madly-in-love with Giovanna Mezzogiorno [AD Project] at first sight then procedes to romance her with a succession of love-letters, much to her father Javier Bardem [No Country For Old Men] disapproval.

Setting-up his daughter with respected doctor Benjamin Bratt [Catwoman] she relents & marries, preserving the family-reputation. Ugalde takes solice in 'servicing' a succession of hookers, bored housewives, students... until the death of Benjamin, some 5-decades later, when he tries to revive the romance...

Set in late 19th & early 20th-century South America this movie is geared to driving many to alcohol & phoning The Samaritans.

Many foreign-movies are highly-enjoyable [e.g., Esprit D'Amour in Cantonese; that I do not understand so rely on subtitles]; LINTOC makes BBC TV soap Eastenders look like good entertainment.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Beautiful film

Slow but keeps you intrigued right up to the end - I loved it. Will watch this film again one day.