Before Night Falls [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] - Region 1 DVD
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Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film Basquiat was relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamoured of his subject as a noble martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance. Still, it's rare to see an artist's life and work so elegantly interwoven, and Before Night Falls uses all of Arenas's life as its canvas, from impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba; imprisonment duri
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Release date: 22 May 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780780634930 UPC: 794043525124
Release date: 22 May 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780780634930 UPC: 794043525124
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