Product Details

• Actors: Profile of a Writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Holly Aylett
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: June 13, 2000
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6302783305
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,880 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In this rare interview, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks about his worldwide best-selling novels (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera), his role in the Latin-American cinema, and his seemingly odd foray into melodramatic soap opera. The program paints an impressive portrait of the master storyteller whose use of "magical realism" has transformed Latin-American literature.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent documentary, July 6, 2010

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Judy Cascales (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marquez: Tales Beyond Solitude [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an excellent documentary in which Gabriel García Márquez discusses the relationship between literature and film. There are excerpts from a number of films for which he wrote the scripts as well as shots of the area in Colombia that provides the settings for many of his novels and short stories. Probably because of a rather graphic scene from the film "Eréndira", the documentary has an "R" rating.