Monday 14 July 2008

Based on the best-selling novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is a smouldering fifty-year romance that will tear at the heart of all romantics.

When teenagers Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza meet, it’s love at first sight. However, after a prolonged absence with her family forced by her disapproving father, Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) returns and marries a wealthy, well-born doctor instead. Florentino (Oscar-nominee Javier Bardem) is devastated and devotes himself to becoming a successful businessman and a prolific womaniser. But nothing can extinguish the flames of love he has for Fermina. When her husband dies, love-sick Florentino seizes his opportunity; exactly fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his passion, he vows to do so again.