Love in the time of cholera

Occasionally, I'll enjoy watching a love story, if it's well-written and acted. This relatively unknown movie set in Columbia in the late 1800s and early 1900s, fits the bill...The movie is based on the novel by the Colombian Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Without giving too much away, I'll say that it's a story about a young Colombian man, Javier Bardem, named Florentino. He falls in love with a beautiful woman way out of his league. They have a brief romance through the letters only, when finally, the young woman marries a rich and handsome doctor, Benjamin Bratt. To compensate for the loss of his one true love, Florentino becomes a Colombian "Don Juan" keeping a record of the many women he makes love too. He enjoys the sex, but he's a hopeless romantic, and never forgets his first love. Fifty-three years later, (Florentino is able to count exactly how many years, days and hours since he first had fallen in love with her), the doctor dies and Florentino makes his move. That's all I'll say... Not wanting to spoil the movie for you. The acting is superb, Javier is excellent. The poetry, language, monologue and dialogue are wonderfully deep and yet accessible. The background of Columbia is beautiful. This is not a movie about cholera, it's about romance and the essence of love. If you're interested in a decent love story, not your run-of-the-mill romantic comedy or overly dramatic teenage love story, this will entertain you. I recommend it.