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Before Night Falls

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The movie is a richly imagined journey into the life and writings of brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas, from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City.

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Actors:

Olatz López Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Loló Navarro, Batan Silva, Carmen Beato, Cy Schnabel, Olmo Schnabel, Vito Schnabel, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Diego Luna, Lia Chapman, ...»

Director:

Julian Schnabel

Country:

United States

Release:

2000

IMDb:

7.1

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Duration:

133 min

KEYWORDS:

#Before Night Falls #Javier Bardem #Johnny Depp #Julian Schnabel #Olatz López Garmendia

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ACTORS OF "Before Night Falls"

Olatz López Garmendia

6 April 1940, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Diego Luna

29 December 1979, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Lia Chapman

Sean Penn

17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA

Jerzy Skolimowski

5 May 1938, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland

Aquiles Benites

Ewa Piaskowska

Javier Bardem

1 March 1969, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Patricia Reyes Spíndola

11 July 1953, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

Michael Wincott

21 January 1958, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hector Babenco

7 February 1946, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Andrea Di Stefano

15 December 1972, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Marlene Díaz

Olga Borayo

Santiago Magill

17 January 1977, Lima, Peru

4 March 1950, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

12 January 1966, Paris, France

Manuel González

Maurice Compte

Claudette Maillé

11 November 1964, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

John Ortiz

23 May 1968, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Vincent Laresca

21 January 1974, New York City, New York, USA

14 February 1972, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

Francisco Gattorno

12 October 1964, Santa Clara, Cuba

Marisol Padilla Sánchez

7 June 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA

4 September 1973, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Antonio Zavala Kugler

9 June 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Claudio Osoria

Alfredo Villa

17 April 1968, Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain

Diahnne Abbott

1 May 1945, New York City, New York, USA

Juan Cristóbal Murillo

Melanio Filiberto Hebra

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DIRECTORS OF "Before Night Falls"

Julian Schnabel

26 October 1951, Brooklyn, New York, USA

CREATORS OF "Before Night Falls"

Lázaro Gómez Carriles

Cunningham O'Keefe

HEROES OF "Before Night Falls"

Reinaldo Arenas

Played by: Giovanni Florido

Cuco Sanchez

Played by: Sean Penn

Reinaldo Arenas

Played by: Javier Bardem

Heberto Zorilla Ochoa

Played by: Michael Wincott

Bon Bon

Played by: Johnny Depp

Death

Played by: Xavier Domingo

CRITICS OF "Before Night Falls"

Film Scouts

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.

June 21, 2007

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Orlando Sentinel

Clearly this is Bardem's show. And Bardem walks away with it.

March 12, 2001

Film Geek Central

This could have been a compelling movie about a wonderful writer, but instead it's a tedious, pointless mess. After spending over 2 hours with Arenas, I still knew nothing about him. Javier Bardem's great performance seemed to be a complete waste.

May 10, 2013

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Houston Chronicle

Consistently intriguing and surprisingly entertaining.

February 23, 2001

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Suite101.com

"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.

September 25, 2010

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EmanuelLevy.Com

One of the first features about Castro's impact on artists and homosexuals, this biopic is well acted by Bardem

April 30, 2011

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Entertainment Today

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.

February 17, 2003

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Combustible Celluloid

despite a real commitment to Arenas and his work, the film just falls short.

July 25, 2003

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Miami Herald

Soulful, deeply moving.

February 23, 2001

Rolling Stone

In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary.

June 04, 2001

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.

February 23, 2001

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Washington Post

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.

February 23, 2001

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