"Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier"
1988
Directed by Ruy Guerra

Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier tells the story of Orestes, a wealthy factory owner who falls madly in love with a married pigeon breeder.  Based on a fragment from his novel Love in the Time of Cholera, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier was conceived and co-written by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reteaming Garcia Marquez with director Ruy Guerra (who began his career as an actor, starring in Werner Herzog's masterpiece Aguirre: The Wrath of God), with whom he'd collaborated on the earlier Erendira. "An elegant Wellesian comedy of fate and manners" (Los Angeles Times).
Spanish with English subtitles.
73 minutes.