36/14
100 years of soledad is one of the great summits of literature in Spanish language
Plot
In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate.. This is Netflix's most expensive Latin American-made project to date, with Colombian groups and indigenous communities constructing props and sets for the series..
Its style is unparalleled and its scope is beyond imagination
Its characters are so well portrayed that any screenwriter would have no problem writing them for the screen. But the apparently insurmountable problem to adapt the novel was its duration.
Only streaming can do it justice, and the 2 first episodes are really promising
To compress one hundred years of family and national history was an impossible task. After almost 60 years since its publication the novel has found a cinematic home in Netflix.
The plot evolves smoothly with richness and depth
Great photography, art direction and respect to the characters. The voice over is necessary to let the wonderful prose of García Marquez emerge from time to time.
Wall, so far it's a success in my book
I love it, and I was a bit skeptical that GGM's magic world could be translated to the screen. No need to waste time endlessly scrolling — here's the entire lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month.