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Before Night Falls (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2001
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem & Olivier Martinez | |
Performer: | Sean Penn, Vito Schnabel, Najwa Nimri, Michael Wincott, Olatz Lapez Garmendia, Sebastián Silva & Hector Babenco | |
Directed by | Julian Schnabel | |
Screenwriting by | Lazaro Gomez Carriles, Cunningham O'Keefe & Julian Schnabel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
despite a real commitment to Arenas and his work, the film just falls short.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/4 --
"Before Night Falls" exuberantly portrays a writer whose legacy remains an acutely observant childhood spirit that no perversion of politics could break. Javier Bardem blends the swagger of Robert Downey Jr. and the brooding of a young Al Pacino.
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The Film Yap
Rating: C- --
Saddled with a wandering opening and an equally listless conclusion, a more fitting name for this two hour-plus biopic might well be Before Night Falters.
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Entertainment Today
Though Schnabel's first picture, Basquiat, was notable for its excess and self-indulgence, the filmmaker shows restraint and maturity in this moving depiction of Arenas's life and loves.
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Washington Post
It's a struggle not just to make art but to exist, which is itself an art. And to that goal, the cast members, led by the astonishing Bardem, allow themselves to be devoured by the roles they are playing.
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Washington Post
Rating: C+ --
Schabel's most recent work fails to move me. While the story of Reinaldo Arenas is tragic enough to be interesting (and Javier Bardem's performance sympathetic) the film as a whole simply seems long and indulgent.
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Film Scouts
...[Javier Bardem] gives an undeniably dynamic performance....[Penn and Depp's cameos] are brief and well-integrated... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Product Description:
The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual revolution and homosexual subculture in Havana to persecution and imprisonment under the policies of Fidel Castro for being both gay and a writer. Despite the harsh conditions of prison, the courageous Arenas continued not only to write but also to publish his works abroad. Ultimately, he was allowed to leave Cuba for America, but there he faced new struggles as a man without a country battling AIDS. Schnabel's beautifully filmed sophomore directorial effort captures the essence of Cuba during the revolution. Johnny Depp is featured in the dual supporting roles of the cross-dressing prison inmate, Bon Bon, and the brutal officer, Lieutenant Victor. A well-disguised Sean Penn appears as Cuco Sanchez. Olivier Martinez as Lázaro Gómez Carillo and Andrea Di Stefano as Pepe Malas deliver standout performances. The film received accolades at the 2000 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.
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Live-Action
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True Story
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Documentary
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Prison
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Crime
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Homosexuality
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Writers
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AIDS (Disease)
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Poets
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Love
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Essential Cinema
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- UPC: 794043525124
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