Momentum Pictures Announce Release Of 'Love In The Time Of Cholera'

Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem stars as Florentino Ariza, a poet and telegraph clerk who discovers his life’s passion when he sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) through the window of her father’s villa.
Through a series of passionate letters, Florentino gradually awakens the young beauty’s heart, but her father (John Leguizamo) is furious when he learns of the affair, and vows to keep them apart forever.
Directed by Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco, Enchanted April), Love in the Time of Cholera is a thrilling, sensual and complex journey into the very heart of love.
The Stone Village Pictures production is produced by Golden Globe winner Scott Steindorff (The Human Stain, Empire Falls) and the screenplay is by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Pianist, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Antonio Pinto (City of God) composed the score, and Colombian-born musical superstar Shakira contributes original songs.
The 'stellar ensemble' cast features Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls, The Sea Inside, No Country for Old Men), Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Venice Film Festival’s Volpi Cup winner for Don’t Tell, David di Notello Award winner for Facing Windows), Benjamin Bratt (Traffic, Clear and Present Danger), Academy Award nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), Hector Elizondo (The Princess Diaries 1 & 2, Pretty Woman), Liev Schreiber (The Omen) and Fernanda Montenegro (The House of Sand and Fog, Central Station), with Laura Harring (Mulholland Dr.) and John Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge, Collateral Damage)
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