El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Reviews

It tells the story of a decrepit colonel, yet dignified and proud, waiting every day for 27 years, the arrival of a letter where he announces his right to collect a pension. Living in the ruin and charity, just the company of his wife, lucid and at once upset by the death of the child in a bad business, and a cock and is coveted for its mascot and Colonel time friend.
No doubt the work of García Márquez remarkably suited to the sordid world, Ripstein dramatic and colorful pen and complex Paz Alicia Garcia Diego, which, finally, the Colombian writer is a film adaptation and what Ripstein further explores his current teaching and be considered, without question, one of the greats of today.

There is in this film reflects on the disappointment of living, on the defeat, on the life numbed by grief and neglect. And Ripstein applies apesadumbrador lyricism in history, a disappointing melancholy, a dramatic depth talkative further swollen by blacks and very explanatory touches of black humor and absurdity. It is true that there is magical realism, because there is only human realism in a world very Ripstein: ruthless, lacking oxygen, full of rot, inhospitable, where everything can be bought and sold, where, to quote the wonderful Miguel Hernandez "Man the man lurks. "