The Netflix adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, a classic that narrates the epic of fate, family, politics and madness in Macondo, a fictional town that represents the wider, tragic history of Colombia and Latin America as a whole, released yesterday, December 11.
This magnum opus of the Nobel Prize winning author has been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. Even though Márquez refused to sell the rights to bring the novel to life, Netflix has now created this magical world with the blessings of his sons filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha, who were among the show’s executive producers.
So let’s take a brief look at, what the reviews could offer for the audience, who are about to get into the world of the masterpiece, One Hundred Years Of Solitude.
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The successful adaptation of any creation can be determined, when the audience feels every page in the screen. Variety feels that the directors Alex García López and Laura Mora has made this as a faithful adaptation. The review reads, “One Hundred Years of Solitude is exquisitely detailed and layered in intricate symbolism. The show is one of the most faithful page-to-screen adaptations in recent years.”
Praising how the series visualises magical realism with its casual inclusion of elements, The Wrap review reads, “The true magic here lies in how close the adapters come to immersing us in the physical, psychological and topnotch aesthetic reality that Garcia Marquez indelibly imagined.”
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The review of The Guardian reads, “Netflix is evidently keen not to undercook its dramatisation, made in the novel’s home of Colombia: at 16 episodes, it’s a pretty big TV series. Devotees of the book might think the pictures on the screen can never measure up, while those sceptical about magical realism – One Hundred Years of Solitude is a work cursed by its own influence, its innovations now cheapened by too many imitators – will be primed to dismiss it as ephemeral, twee or, in its riskier moments, distasteful.”
The Hollywood Reporter feels that this adaptation is ambitious and honourable. The review reads, “what the creators José Rivera and Natalia Santa have made is ambitious and honorable. Their show — these eight episodes cover half of the book, with eight more to go — aspires to convey the tone and feel of Márquez’s poetic prose. It uses as many of his words as possible, to the degree that almost anything you hear that sticks in your head is likely to be taken from the book verbatim.”