26/37
In the timeless city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion, and the inevitability of their past and fate. This is Netflix’s most expensive project in Latin America to date, with Colombian and indigenous groups. communities building props and sets for the series. Featured in Radio Dolin: Results of 2024. Best Movies of the Year (2024). 100 Years of Solitude is one of the great pinnacles of Spanish-language literature. Its style is unparalleled and its scope surpasses imagination. Its characters are so well portrayed that any screenwriter would have no problem writing them for the screen. But the seemingly insurmountable problem for adapting the novel was its length. Compressing a hundred years of family and national history was an impossible task. Nearly 60 years after its publication, the novel has found a cinematic home in 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 Marquez’s wonderful prose come through from time to time. The plot flows smoothly, with richness and depth. I love it and was a little skeptical that GGM’s magical world could be translated to the screen. Wall, so far it’s a success in my book.