LEONARDO DICAPRIO IN COLONIA NARVARTE X2
ROMEO + JULIET (1996)
Imagine it's 1996, and one night you are standing at your window on Torres Adalid, in Colonia Narvarte. Suddenly, you see a 20 year old Leonardo DiCaprio running down the middle of the street carrying a silver pistol. Am I dreaming? He is then followed by a a truck with a mounted camera, a cinematographer and a man with long grey hair who looks like a Director. Following them are 15 siren wailing police cars and 2 helicopters. What is widely regarded as the best film adaptation of a Shakespearean play, the Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet, was filmed in the streets of Colonia Narvarte and Del Valle: Gabriel Mancera, Diagonal San Antonio and Torres Adalid.
During the movie, the beautiful church on the corner of Gabriel Mancera and Torres Adalid, Al Inmaculado Corazon de Maria, was home to the priest of Verona, Friar Lawrence. It is where Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) came to seek advice from the Friar (Pete Postlethwaite), where he was wed to Juliet, where he fled after killing Tybalt, where Juliet (Claire Danes) comes for confession to be given the sleeping potion, where Romeo flees from police during his return from exile to find his lover, and ultimately, where they both commit suicide.
The petrol station where he runs from the car to the church was a Pemex on the corner of Gabriel Mancera and Diagonal San Antonio. There is also a cut of him running across a road towards the church. It is the corner of Torres Adalid and Gabriel Mancera. The convenience store in the background was converted for the movie. It is where the Oxxo is now. He then runs the stairs, captures the priest as hostage and enters the church to find Juliet.
For a three week shooting period, Colonia Narvarte Poniente was transformed.
ROMEO + JULIET (1996)
Imagine it's 1996, and one night you are standing at your window on Torres Adalid, in Colonia Narvarte. Suddenly, you see a 20 year old Leonardo DiCaprio running down the middle of the street carrying a silver pistol. Am I dreaming? He is then followed by a a truck with a mounted camera, a cinematographer and a man with long grey hair who looks like a Director. Following them are 15 siren wailing police cars and 2 helicopters. What is widely regarded as the best film adaptation of a Shakespearean play, the Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet, was filmed in the streets of Colonia Narvarte and Del Valle: Gabriel Mancera, Diagonal San Antonio and Torres Adalid.
During the movie, the beautiful church on the corner of Gabriel Mancera and Torres Adalid, Al Inmaculado Corazon de Maria, was home to the priest of Verona, Friar Lawrence. It is where Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) came to seek advice from the Friar (Pete Postlethwaite), where he was wed to Juliet, where he fled after killing Tybalt, where Juliet (Claire Danes) comes for confession to be given the sleeping potion, where Romeo flees from police during his return from exile to find his lover, and ultimately, where they both commit suicide.
The petrol station where he runs from the car to the church was a Pemex on the corner of Gabriel Mancera and Diagonal San Antonio. There is also a cut of him running across a road towards the church. It is the corner of Torres Adalid and Gabriel Mancera. The convenience store in the background was converted for the movie. It is where the Oxxo is now. He then runs the stairs, captures the priest as hostage and enters the church to find Juliet.
For a three week shooting period, Colonia Narvarte Poniente was transformed.
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