Love in the Time of Cholera years, was released on November 16, 2007, by New Line Cinema. On his own initiative, García Márquez persuaded singer Shakira, who is from the nearby city of Barranquilla, to provide two songs for the film. In the movie "Serendipity", Sara asks Jonathan to write his name and phone number on a $5 bill, while she writes her name and number on the inside cover of a copy of "Love in the Time of Cholera". If they are meant to be together, he will find the book and she will find the $5 bill, and they will find their way back
Love in the Time of Money the film's artificiality, making you gratingly aware of how much has been left out and how much of the drama is based on secondhand assumptions rather than genuine insight." Lisa Schwarzbaum of "Entertainment Weekly" wrote, "It's not about love. It's not about money. It's not even about sex, although the transaction of cold, love-starved sexual business propels the daisy-chain encounters that make up "Love in the Time of Money". If anything, theater director Peter Mattei's dingy, mannered, visually ragged resetting of Max Ophuls' unimprovable 1950 beaut "La Ronde" (based on an 1896 play by Arthur Schnitzler) is about scenes of