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In the timeless city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family experience love, oblivion, and the inevitability of their past and destiny. It is Netflix’s most expensive Latin American project to date, with Colombian groups and indigenous people. communities building props and sets for the series. Turning One Hundred Years of Solitude into a film seems to be an extremely difficult task for two main reasons. First, this novel belongs to a specific literary movement pioneered by South American writers, especially Gabriel García Márquez, where the story is told by combining reality and fantasy. At times this fusion is so intense that it seems impossible to separate the two. Of course, translating such scenes to cinema runs the risk of appearing absurd and failing to achieve a satisfying cinematic form. However, watching the first episode of the series One Hundred Years of Solitude, it became clear that the creators managed to convey this magical and surreal feeling to the audience without seeming ridiculous. The second reason is the inherent complexity of the novel. One Hundred Years of Solitude is challenging to read because of the repeated use of the same names for different characters and the non-linear narrative and frequent disruption of the timeline. These elements can exhaust the reader. Fortunately, such questions are absent from the series, which successfully transformed a non-linear narrative into a linear one, allowing it to establish a strong connection with the audience. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is one of the biggest TV and streaming premieres this month. See our December calendar for more details!