Love In The Time Of Cholera Page #7

Synopsis: 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. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She's soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino's fall, are Ariza's hopes delusional?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mike Newell
Production: New Line Cinema
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
R
Year:
2007
139 min
$4,584,886
Website
551 Views


let's not...

Life crippled that

poor man 50 years ago

because he was too young and now you

want to do it because we are too old.

What I'd like most is

to walk out of my house

and keep going,

going, going,

and never come back.

Well, you...

you could take a boat.

Well...

I might.

I might

just do that.

I have one.

The New Fidelity.

It's...

it's leaving soon.

It's eight days

up-river,

and five days

on the return.

Travel is good for

the troubled spirit.

Splendid vision

of the Earth,

passing, changing...

as we travel by.

Come in.

Are your quarters

to your liking?

It is

the Presidential Suite.

It was my idea

to install it.

I wanted to call it

the Honeymoon Suite.

Do you want to

be alone?

If I did, I wouldn't have

told you to come in.

Juvenal is a good man.

Is a good husband.

I can't imagine

a better one.

But when I look back,

I suppose there...

were more difficulties

than pleasure.

Too many useless

arguments.

Too much anger.

Maybe it's time...

to ask ourselves,

with our strong

desire to live,

what to do with

the love that has been left behind

without a master?

It's incredible

how one can be happy

for so many years

in the midst of

so many problems,

so many squabbles.

Damn it.

And not really know

if it was love or not.

Go now.

Not now.

I smell like

an old woman.

I have never been happier

in all my life.

Oh, my love

What wouldn't I

do for you

Just to take you

for a second

Away from the world

And close to me

Oh, my love

Like the Magdalena River

That it melts

into sands from the sea

I want to melt into you

There are love affairs

That wait until winter

to blossom

And get greener

at night in the fall

Just like this love

that I feel for you.

Tomorrow we reach

our last port-of-call...

La Dorada.

La Dorada.

And then...

turn back for home.

Don't look.

Why not?

Because you won't like it.

I have waited for this moment

for 54 years.

Yes. Yes, you...

you've told me before.

I have remained

a virgin for you.

You're a liar.

- Captain, Captain.

- Thank you, sir.

Captain?

- Um, speaking hypothetically...

- Hi, how are you?

Hello.

Speaking hypothetically,

would it be possible

to make the...

- Captain.

...return trip without stopping?

- Thank you.

- Without cargo

or passengers, without

coming into any port...

Thank you.

...without...

without anything?

It's possible.

But only hypothetically.

As you know better than I,

the company has contracts to fulfill.

But there is one thing

that could be done.

What is that?

If we had a case of

cholera onboard.

Ooh.

We'd hoist the yellow flag

and be quarantined.

Well then, let's do that.

I command this ship,

but you command me.

If you're serious, just give

me the order in writing

and we will leave

right now.

I love you,

my crowned goddess.

We're going to

stay like this.

You can't mean it.

From the moment

I was born,

I have never said anything

I did not mean.

And how long do you...

you think we can...

stay like this?

Forever.

Forever?

After 54 years,

seven months

and 11 days and nights,

my heart was

at last fulfilled.

And I discovered,

to my joy,

that it is life

and not death

that has no limits.

I think of you

every day

I think of you

a little bit more

I tear my reason apart

And I keep

thinking of you

And I keep

thinking...

Down the Magdalena

Down

the Magdalena

I'm going to Cartagena

I'm going

to Cartagena

I'm going,

I'm going

I'm going, I'm going

I'm always sailing away

I'm always

sailing away

Along with my woman

Along with

my woman

Singing and singing

Singing

and singing

Down the Magdalena

Down

the Magdalena

I'm always sailing away

I'm always

sailing away

Along with my woman

Along with

my woman

Singing and singing

Singing

and singing

Down the Magdalena

Down

the Magdalena

Already many women

Already

many women

Have crossed the river

Have crossed

the river

Already in my memories

Already

in my memories

Down the river

Down

the river

Down the Magdalena

Down

the Magdalena

I'm going to Cartagena

I'm going

to Cartagena

Down the Magdalena

Down

the Magdalena

I'm going to Cartagena

I'm going

to Cartagena

Down the Magdalena

Down

the Magdalena

I'm going to Cartagena.

I'm going

to Cartagena

I'm going,

I'm going

I'm going, I'm going.

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Ronald Harwood

Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). more…

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