a sober and reflexive piece and a little miniature which blossom into a magnificent humane pictorial sequence which go beyond a mere dramatization for the screen . this quiet little story will hold you enthral if you do not have too many problem with the various spanish accent range from mexican to peruvian and and marisa paredes more authentic iberian peninsular usage . garcíadiego have accomplish a perfect adaptation from the novel represent even the grand maestro garcía márquez should be proud of her superb work . and hat off to arturo ripstein who have so ably concert the whole effort into a gem and a ruby and and so refined and so elegant and so sensitive and so touchingly . el coronel fernando luján be wait to get his pension and while he continue to live in his ramshackle timber dwell deep in the colombian jungle ( however and film elsewhere and not in colombia ) with his fight cock and his wife ( in that order . ) . and that be all there be to it . but and oh and so much more . this film be a rhapsody . i must see this poetic little piece again as soon a possible . worth the high side of positive and which be very high on my scale . this be not light commercial hollywood stuff .