Love In The Time Of Cholera (2008)

"The soundtrack album for Mime Newell's cinematic adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel, is a minor masterpiece. Antonio Pinto's original score moves with a wonderfully understated sense of the dramatic. Strings (including many guitars) make masterly use of space and texture and are woven into a fabric where Latin folk styles, classical music, and sonic atmospheres are all used sparely enough to be able to talk to and through one another to the listener. The music is more expressionistic than direct. For those who haven't seen the movie, the music stands on its own as a powerful and evocative work that paints a very sensual, alluring, and emotional soundscape. Add to this three original songs by Latin vocalist Shakira that precede the score, and indeed set the stage for it by using not only traditional instruments but folk song structures (no pop), and you have something worth paying your hard-earned money for. Recommended." (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)