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In the timeless city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, forgetting, and the inevitability of their past and fate. It’s Netflix’s most expensive project in Latin America to date, with Colombian indigenous groups and communities constructing the props and sets for the series. 100 Años de Soledad is one of the great heights of Spanish-language literature. Its style is unmatched and its scope defies imagination. Its characters are so well-portrayed 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 two episodes are truly promising. Great cinematography, artistic direction, and respect for the characters. The voiceover is necessary to allow García Márquez’s magnificent prose to occasionally emerge. The story unfolds smoothly, with richness and depth. I love it and was a little skeptical that the magical world of GGM could be brought to the screen. Wall, so far it’s a success in my book. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the biggest TV and streaming releases this month. Check out our December calendar for more!