Hilda Hidalgo - Del amor y otros demonios (2009)

The film is based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1994 novel of the same name... but (fatally) it lacks the frame narrative. It may be that it is actually closer in tone to the 2008 opera, but it contains almost nothing of the Afro-Caribbean/Yoruba angle that works as a sort of "counter-narrator" in the novel and which the opera apparently foregrounded. It winds up being, as the negative review posted below suggests, a conventional romance. As that reviewer says, Hidalgo's film has some great imagery but it wasn't audacious enough and (in my view) doesn't wind up realizing a sound adaptation of what Gabriel García Márquez was fabricating in his novel. Still, the film has merits as a kind of "show-piece" for what Hidalgo can do with images which isn't negligible.

File Name .........................................: Del amor y otros demonios.avi
File Size (in bytes) ............................: 1,097,814,016 bytes
Runtime ............................................: 1:38:55

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Frame Size ......................................: 640x360 (AR: 1.778)
FPS .................................................: 23.976
Video Bitrate ...................................: 1278 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.231 bpp
B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [], [], [], []

Audio Codec ...................................: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ...................................: 192 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR
No. of audio streams .......................: 1


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206479/

Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish and Portuguese (srt)

Thanks to chispawell @ clan-sudamerica.net for the rip!