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 Cholera (film) never understand the ardor of those who have — at least not based on all the hammy traipsing and coupling and scene-hopping thrown together here." In the "Los Angeles Times", Carina Chocano stated, "the novel has made it to the screen in the form of a plodding, tone-deaf, overripe, overheated Oscar baiting telenovela ... Doubtless it's an enormously daunting task to adapt a book at once so sweeping and internal, so swooningly romantic and philosophical, but it takes a lighter touch and a more expansive view than Newell and Harwood seem to bring." A song written for the film by