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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999)
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2 June 1999 (France)
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Basada en la novela de Gabriel García Márquez.
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Cada viernes El Coronel se coloca el único traje que tiene y acude al muelle para aguardar la carta que anuncie la llegada de su pensión...
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Gabriel García Márquez' short novel adapted to an exquisite film
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Fernando Luján | ... | El coronel | |
| Marisa Paredes | ... | Lola | |
| Salma Hayek | ... | Julia | |
| Rafael Inclán | ... | Padre Ángel | |
| Ernesto Yáñez | ... | Don Sabas | |
| Daniel Giménez Cacho | ... | Nogales | |
| Esteban Soberanes | ... | Germán | |
| Patricia Reyes Spíndola | ... | Jacinta | |
| Odiseo Bichir | ... | Dr. Pardo | |
| Julián Pastor | ... | Lugones | |
| Eugenio Lobo | ... | Álvaro | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jacobo Atri | |||
| Enrique Castillo | |||
| Jorge Castillo | ... | El cartero | |
| Juana Garza | |||
| Mercedes Gironella | |||
| Osami Kawano | |||
| Eligio Meléndez | |||
| Loló Navarro | |||
| Leticia Valenzuela | |||
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No One Writes to the Colonel (International: English title)
Pas de lettre pour le colonel (France)
Personne n'écrit au colonel (France)
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Pas de lettre pour le colonel (France)
Personne n'écrit au colonel (France)
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Argentina:118 min | France:118 min | Mexico:118 min | Spain:122 min
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Referenced in "Una familia de diez: TV por cable (#1.6)" (2007)
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A sober, reflexive piece, a little miniature which blossoms into a magnificent humane pictorial sequence which goes beyond a mere dramatization for the screen. This quiet little story will hold you enthralled - if you do not have too many problems with the various Spanish accents ranging from Mexican to Peruvian, and Marisa Paredes' more authentic Iberian Peninsular usage! Garcíadiego has accomplished a perfect adaptation from the novel: even the grand maestro García Márquez should be proud of her superb work. And hats off to Arturo Ripstein who has so ably concerted the whole effort into a gem, a ruby, and so refined, so elegant, so sensitive, so touchingly.....
El Coronel - Fernando Luján - is waiting to get his pension, while he continues to live in his ramshackle timber dwelling deep in the Colombian jungle (however, filmed elsewhere, NOT in Colombia) with his fighting cock and his wife (in that order?). And that is all there is to it.
But, oh, so much more.... This film is a rhapsody.
I must see this poetic little piece again as soon as possible. Worth the high side of 8 out of 10, which is very high on my scale.
This is not light commercial Hollywood stuff.