27/13
In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate between love, oblivion, and the inescapability of their past and destiny. This is Netflix’s most expensive Latin American project to date, with Colombian groups and indigenous communities building props and sets for the series. Referenced in Radio Dolin: The Results of 2024. The Best Movies of the Year (2024). 100 Years of Solitude is one of the great peaks of Spanish-language literature. Its style is unmatched and its scope goes beyond imagination. Its characters are so well portrayed that any screenwriter would have no problem writing them for the screen. But the seemingly insurmountable problem in adapting the novel was its length. Compressing a 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 on Netflix. Only streaming can do it justice, and the first 2 episodes are really promising. Great photography, art direction, and respect for the characters. The voiceover is necessary to let García Márquez’s wonderful prose come through from time to time. The plot evolves fluidly, with richness and depth. I love it, and was a bit skeptical that GGM’s magical world could be translated to the screen. Wall, so far is a success in my opinion.