Before Night Falls (2000)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 22, 2000
Running Time: 125 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English and Spanish
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Julian Schnabel
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The story of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas. Raised in the Oriente Province of Cuba in the 1940s, Arenas began his life-long love of the sea and water. Leaving home as a young adolescent, he moves to Havana where he finds himself swept up in the revolutionary spirit and joins a circle of writers and artists. His first novel, "Singing from the Well," is published in Cuba, but as Castro's oppressive regime gathers force, Arenas' homosexuality and political writing make him a target. After being falsely accused of molestation, Arenas is arrested and imprisoned at El Morro. Eventually released from prison after dehumanizing treatment, Arenas flees Cuba in the 1980 Mariel Harbor boatlift. Moving to New York with his friend Lazaro Gomez Carilles, Arenas' hopes for a new life are destroyed by AIDS, and he dies in 1993, at the age of 45.
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December 20, 2000
Before Night Falls - drunk on sex, freedom and the leaping joy of artistic creation - tells the story of Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), the Cuban novelist and poet. Tormented by AIDS and political persecution, Arenas died by his own hand in 1990, an exile in New York. Directing his second film, following 1996's Basquiat, the artist Julian Schnabel, who co-wrote the script based on Arenas' memoir, paints a vivid screen portrait of creative and carnal awakening. The liberating energy of… Continued
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Reinaldo Arenas
Lieutenant Victor
Lazaro Gomez Carriles
Pepe Malas
Cuco Sanchez
Herberto Zorilla Ochoa
Fina Zorilla Correa
Virgilio Pinera
Reinaldo's Mother
Teenage Reinaldo Arenas
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