Cartagena (film)

Cartagena
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Alain Monne
Produced by
  • Pierre Forette
  • Christine Gozlan
  • Thierry Wong
Screenplay by
  • Alain Monne
  • Nathalie Vailloud
Based on L'Homme de chevet
by Eric Holder
Starring
Music by Florencia Di Concilio
Cinematography Antoine Roch
Edited by Catherine Schwartz
Production
company
  • Ciné Nominé
  • Thelma Films
  • arte France Cinéma
Distributed by Rézo Films
Release date
  • 18 November 2009 (2009-11-18) (France)
Running time
 92 minutes
Country France
Language French

Cartagena (French: L'homme de chevet) is a 2009 French drama film directed by Alain Monne and starring Sophie Marceau, Christopher Lambert, and Margarita Rosa de Francisco.[1] Based on the novel L'Homme de chevet by Eric Holder, with a screenplay by Alain Monne and Nathalie Vailloud, the film is about a beautiful, free-spirited woman who becomes bedridden following a terrible accident. Against her better judgement, she hires a drunk middle-aged former boxer to cook and care for her. Although unqualified for the position, he is desperate to work, and slowly he wins the trust of the woman, who teaches him how to read by introducing him to the works of Charles Bukowski. Through his help, she is forced to consider the potential happiness that awaits her in the outside world. The movie ends with the couple committing suicide by drowning into the sea.

Cartagena was filmed on location in Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia.[2] The actor Christopher Lambert was six months in Cartagena training with coach Anibal Gonzalez during his preparation for the role.

Cast

  • Sophie Marceau as Muriel
  • Christopher Lambert as Léo
  • Margarita Rosa de Francisco as Lucia
  • Rodolfo De Souza as Valdes
  • Linett Hernandez Valdes as Lina
  • Salvatore Basile as Le kinésithérapeute
  • Elizabeth del Carmen Bonilla Isaza as Infirmière remplaçante
  • Yamile Cardenas Moreno as Fille blonde coup de poing
  • Hancel Gonzalez Forero as L'enfant rêve
  • Anibal Gonzalez Parra as Ami Léo
  • Diogenes Guerra Miranda as Ecrivain public
  • Julian Iragorri as Homme bagarre
  • Juliana Morales Uribe as Fille blonde
  • Nelson Pallares Narvaez as L'enfant crocodiles
  • Alberto Thiele Cenzato as Homme bagarre
  • Angelica Vargas as Fille blonde
  • Eparkio Vega as Vendeur de livres[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Cartagena". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Locations for Cartagena". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Cartagena". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
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