Cartagena Regains Luster
Cartagena
After being the set of the Princess Bride years ago, Cartagena’s fame in the filming word has fallen.
The Miami Herald covers a new and hopeful trend to the contrary:
Cartagena Regaining its Former Cinematic Luster
This historic port city, which once claimed to be the filmmaking center of the Caribbean, looks to rebuild its cinema and tourism industries.
BY JOSHUA GOODMAN
CARTAGENA, Colombia – Even if you’re not a location scout, it’s difficult not to become entranced by the timeless beauty of this Caribbean port’s heavy-stone ramparts and trove of Spanish colonial architecture.
But despite a sharp drop in murders since law-and order President Alvaro Uribe took office in 2002, Colombia’s well-earned reputation for violence nearly cost Cartagena the chance of being featured in the film Love in the Time of Cholera. The best-seller novel on which the film was based was set here by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.