Love in the Time of Cholera (film) Love in the Time of Cholera (film) Love in the Time of Cholera is a 2007 film directed by Mike Newell. Based on the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, it tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her two suitors, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) and Doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) which spans 50 years, from 1880 to 1930. Producer Scott Steindorff spent over three years courting Gabriel García Márquez for the rights to the book telling him that he was Florentino and would not give up
The Time Traveler's Wife out by what somebody else might do with it. And it is sort of thrilling and creepy, because now the characters have an existence apart from me." In general, the film received mixed-to-negative reviews. For example, "The New York Times" wrote that the film was an "often ridiculous, awkward, unsatisfying and dour melodramatic adaptation". In July 2018, HBO secured the rights to adapt the novel into a television series to be written by Steven Moffat. The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love story