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Love in the Time of Cholera
Drama, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy sweeping, literary romances about devotion, missed chances, and the emotional persistence of love across decades.
- Tone
- romantic, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- swoon, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- enduring love, longing, aging, marriage, social class
- Setting
- early twentieth-century Colombia, river city and coastal waterways
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