Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

legork Not having read the book I can't say how close this movie sticks to the story by the great author, Gabriel Garcia Marques. The scenes in this movie are works of art, joined together and put in a sequence that gradually reveals a multitude of plots all woven into one. Long after seeing the movie, the scenes, of their own accord come back into my mind, like a tune that once heard is never forgotten, demanding to be considered the main plot. A man, on the prow of a river boat looks at the approaching land. The scene, without words, only the thudding motor of the boat, feint sounds of voices coming from the land, the brilliant white of an elegant mansion, contrasting with the dark gold of the water and a glimpse of narrow alley ways opening on to a wide plaza, hints to us that dramatic events, now memories, are going to be revealed here. Even now, more than a week since seeing the movie, I ask myself, what I can learn from this tragic story. The town's folk have just celebrated a fairy tale marriage of a young woman. Immediately her prince like husband reveals her lost virginity on her marriage bed and returns her to her mother as spoiled property. The lesson I learned from this movie is that a woman whose honor has been taken away has the right to name the price for its recovery. Her price is the life of the most popular young man in town, full of the joy of life and hope in the future. It doesn't matter whether it really was he who had robbed her of her virginity. The fact is that a fallen woman is dangerous; she can name the price of her lost honor. She chooses him to be the sacrifice, because he is worthy. He is killed just like a sacrifice, stabbed to death in the town's main square, while all the people of the town, his friends look on. I wouldn't have come to this conclusion had I continued, like most viewers, I suppose, to dwell on the mystery of whether it was really he who had taken away her virginity. If it wasn't him, then who was the true defiler? Why didn't she give him up to be murdered? Was she protecting someone? Who was she protecting? Was it the doctor? Or was it someone in her immediate family? Maybe even her father or one of her brothers?

cybertwerp I was finally able, thanks to the Colombian DVD version, to see this film again after twenty years. I saw immediately what drew me to it in the first place.What's so special is all basically extraneous to the plotting. The photography is basically a sequence of stills, but what stills! - full benefit of the exoticism of the setting was realized (some was shot in a village chosen as the fictional "Macondo", some in Cartagena), and all in a very high colour. A lot of attention was paid to the appearance of the characters as well - Muti/Everett/Delon became a sort of programme music to commemorate human beauty, and I really liked the reluctantly avenging twins. Another technical trick was the scantiness of the soundtrack; there were times when I would have liked a bit more dialogue, but some of the long silences (like Bayardo and Angela in the rowboat) spoke for themselves, as it were.Speaking of soundtrack, why were Rupert Everett's lines dubbed into Spanish? I know it avoids the need for subtitles; but it was so out of sync with the movement of his mouth as to be ridiculous, and his use of English (apparently sullenness rather than bad Spanish - so said the flyer at the 1987 Montreal Film Festival) added to the fish-out-of-water, if not actually exotic, characterization of Bayardo.What really troubled me, and it would be unfair not to say so, was the narrative frame that Garcia Marquez adopted for the screenplay. It was clumsy to have Cristo Bedoya as both character and objective narrator, and the external narrator of the novel might have been kept as a voice-over device. And (SPOILER HERE) the final scene wasn't plausible; being untrue to the novel is no big deal, but it was so far beyond belief as to have harmed the film. Why not just finish with the body of Santiago Nasar lying in the sand? But it's a WONDERFUL piece of film-making. It deserves far more attention than it's had to date.

evangeline this film is impossible to find...which is too bad because I would absolutely love to see it again. I saw it when I was 13 years old and it made such an impression that I read Marques's book and here I am 17 years later still trying to find it! It is romantic, dreamy and a real pleasure to watch. Anthony Delon, Rupert Everett and Ornella Muti deliver a truly unforgettable story.If anyone know where I can get a copy- see it first and then PLEASE let me know where I can get one!

victormartinezmoreno I saw this movie when I was a little boy, just 10 years old. I'm almost 21 now and I will remember this one forever. This is one of those movies you once see, and love so much, but are afraid of not getting another chance to see it again. I have forgotten some parts of the film, and i would do anything to see it again, just to remember it to see if it still would be one of my favourites. So i hope someone reads this and maybe can help me? I liked it so much I sudently got interested of reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' tales and books, so I told my father to read some of them for me. I now am a big fan of Garcia Marquez. I'm a movie lover and my favourite movies are such as The Usual Supects, The Shawshank Redemption, Memento, Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful + many, many more. Good movie. Please forgive me for my bad english... Peace y'all