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Before Night Falls - (Antes de que
anochezca)
2000 -
USA
- 133 min. -
Feature,
Color
Director:
Julian Schnabel
Cast:
Javier Bardem,
Olivier
Martinez,
Andrea Di Stefano,
Johnny Depp,
Sean Penn,
Michael Wincott
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
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Audio: English &
Spanish Surround
- Lang.: Sub. English,
French &
Spanish
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
For his sophomore feature film effort, visual
artist
Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic
literary voices, the late
Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel
recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and
support he receives from his mother (played by the director's wife,
Olatz Lopez Garmendia). As a young man, Arenas (Javier
Bardem) is singled out by his teachers and encouraged to further his
skills as a writer — no easy task, considering the Castro regime's censorship
of any work considered to be subversive or anti-authoritarian. Still, the
author manages to smuggle his work out of the country through friends, who
arrange for one of his novels to be published in France. Not only persecuted
for his creative beliefs, the openly gay Arenas is jailed on a bogus sex
charge; he escapes internment only to be captured and persecuted later for his
contraband dispatches. In 1980, Arenas is finally allowed to leave Cuba for
the United States, where he achieves freedom of expression but not prosperity.
Schnabel's first film was another portrait of an artist, 1996's
Basquiat;
Bardem made his name in several of director
Pedro
Almodovar's Spanish-language productions.
Before Night Falls premiered at the 2000 Venice Film Festival,
where it received the Best Actor and Grand Special Jury prizes, and made its
North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bardem
would go on to receive a host of accolades, including an eventual Best Actor
nomination at the 2001 Academy Awards.
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