SPANISH LANGUAGE DRAMA: “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” / “The Dead Girls.”
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Netflix) Season 1 or the. first 8 episodes. Colombian historical drama series based on Gabriel García Márquez 's 1967 novel of the same name . Tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo . It'd be hard or impossible to replicate Mr Garcia Marquez's monumental literary epic as a cinematic project. But this series, directed by Alex Garcia Lopez and Laura Mora from a team of scriptwriters, did an exemplary job of visualizing what we imagined as we immersed in Gabriel's entrancing narrative, punctuated by his genius use of magical realism. I give special kudos to production designers Barbara Enriquez and Eugenio Caballero. Their craft is so intimately detailed and grandiosely picturesque, adding dramatic urgency to the story's panoramic reach. Indeed, magical! And yes the outstanding perform...