31/25
In the eternal city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family confront love, oblivion, and the inevitability of their past and destiny. This is Netflix’s most expensive Latin American project to date, with Colombian groups and indigenous communities creating the series’ props and sets. Quoted in Radio Dolin: Results of 2024. Best Films of the Year (2024). 100 Years of Solitude is one of the great pinnacles of Spanish-language literature. Its style is unparalleled, and its reach is beyond imagination. Its characters are so well-drawn 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. Almost 60 years after its publication, the novel has found a cinematic home on Netflix. Only streaming can do it justice, and the first 2 episodes are truly promising. Excellent photography, art direction, and respect for the characters. The narrative voice is needed to occasionally highlight García Márquez’s wonderful prose. The plot unfolds smoothly with richness and depth. I love it, and I was a little skeptical about whether the magical world of GGM could be translated to the screen. Wall, so far it has succeeded in my book.
