'One Hundred Years of Solitude' on Screen

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Netflix has brought Gabriel García Márquez’s iconic novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" to life with a two-part limited series spanning over 16 hours of television. The Colombian masterpiece tells the multi-generational saga of the Buendía family, who establish the utopian town of Macondo. The story captures their struggles with love, war, curses, and solitude, intertwined with the magical realism that defines García Márquez’s literary style.

We spoke to Alex García López, one of the series’ directors about the experience of creating the magical world of Macondo.

This interview was recorded in early November.

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0:00.0	Magical Realism is not really a genre per se.
0:10.0	It's a sort of way of life.
0:12.0	It's a belief that, in my humble opinion, it comes from the merging of different cultures and their beliefs and their spirituality.
0:31.7	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. Today, Argentine director,
0:38.3	Alex Garcia-Lopez on the TV adaptation of 100 Years of Solitude.
0:47.3	The novel 100 Years of Solitude, better known as 100 Years of Soledad, is regarded as one of the most important works
0:52.3	of the Spanish language.
1:00.0	The story follows first cousins, Jose Arcadio Bendiya and Ursula Igueran,
1:03.4	who defied their parents' wishes to marry,
1:07.1	and so they set off on a journey to find a new home. The cousins, along with other adventure seekers,
1:14.6	eventually established the utopian town of Macondo on a lush riverside. Over many generations, the Wendia family shapes the destiny of this
1:23.2	mystical town as they endure cycles of madness, forbidden loves, a senseless war, and a haunting curse
1:32.1	that dooms them to a century of solitude.
1:36.0	Much years after the peloton of fusilament.
1:46.3	The colonel Aurelian no endia.
1:49.4	Had
1:50.1	to record that
1:51.1	time
1:51.6	remota
1:52.2	in that
1:55.4	his father
1:55.9	he was
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