Love in the Time of Cholera

Directed by Mike Newell

With Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo and Fernanda Montenegro

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.