love in the time of cholera

Director: mike newell

Actor: javier bardem,giovanna mezzogiorno,benjamin bratt,gina bernard forbes

Data Published: Fri Nov 16 2007

Genres: Drama,Romance

Key Words: caribbean sea,movie flop,widow,marriage,old man

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484740/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera_(film)

Description: Love in the Time of Cholera is a movie starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, and Benjamin Bratt. Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate...

Plot: In late 19th century Cartagena, a river port in Colombia, Florentino Ariza falls in love at first sight with Fermina Daza. They secretly correspond, and she eventually agrees to marry him, but her father discovers their relationship and sends her to stay with distant relatives (mainly her grandmother and niece). When she returns some years later, Fermina agrees to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, her father's choice. Their 50-year marriage is outwardly loving but inwardly marred by darker emotions. Fermina's marriage devastates Florentino, who vows to remain a virgin, but his self-denial is thwarted by a tryst. To help him get over Fermina, his mother throws a willing widow into his bed, and he discovers that sex is a very good pain reliever, one he uses to replace the opium that he had habitually smoked. He begins to record and describe each of his sexual encounters, beginning with the widow, and eventually compiles over 600 entries. A lowly clerk, he plods resolutely over many years to approach the wealth and social standing of Dr. Urbino. When the now-elderly doctor dies suddenly, Florentino immediately and impertinently resumes courting Fermina.