Before Night Falls (Antes que anochezca) (2001)

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Directed by

Julian Schnabel

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Olatz Lopez Garmendia
Reinaldo's Mother

Giovanni Florido
Young Reinaldo

Loló Navarro
Reinaldo's Grandmother

Carmen Beato
Teacher

Cy Schnabel
Smallest School Child

Vito Maria Schnabel
Teenage Reinaldo

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Reinaldo's Grandfather

Diego Luna
Carlos

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A good movie

6 years, 5 months ago at Oct 26 11:24

johanlefourbe

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. I actually saw the damned thing in the movie theater when it was released. Anyway, the tricky thing about this movie is that I had no idea who the hell was Reinaldo Arenas before watching the damned thing. On top of that, Arenas was a poet and this Art is probably the most difficult to brin... read more

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Description: Before Night Falls is a touching screen adaptation of the autobiography of gay Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas that convincingly shows how freedom is the air that writers must breathe in order to fully express their creative souls. Through extreme rises and falls—impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba; imprisonment during Castro's antigay regime; moving to New York City in 1980; followed by a battle with AIDS and subsequent suicide in 1990—Arenas is always writing, his typewriter his most faithful lover and weapon against the dark forces that surround him. Director Julian Schnabel uses his ... (more)

Release date: 9 February 2001
UPC: 794043525124

Tags: Drama (12), Cuba (8), Biography (7), Poetry (7), 2000s (6), Prison (6), Aids (5), Revolution (5), Johnny Depp (4), Straw (4), 2000 (4), Cross Dresser (3), Oscar Nominee (3), Gay Interest (3), Writers (3), Gay Bashing (3), Typewriter (3), Independent Film (3), Gay (3)

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