Love in the Time of Cholera (film) Shakira and Antonio Pinto was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Song. In its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, the film ranked #10 at the box office, grossing $1.9 million in 852 theaters. 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
The Time of the Angels the reader's imagination is addressed, responds and is satisfied." Also in the "New York Times", Charles Poore, while noting Murdoch's "preachy passages" and the book's "gothick novel" aspects, described her as a "born storyteller" and "The Time of the Angels" as the "newest and best" of her "excellent melodramas". In "The New York Review of Books" Denis Donoghue described the novel as "elegiac", "an anthology of defeats: magic, belief, prayer, love, and now perhaps poetry itself." "Kirkus Reviews" described the novel as a "mediocre work" partially because of her frequent novel writing, writing that the plot resembles her own earlier