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Before Night Falls
Directed by
Julian Schnabel
R
2000
2h 14m
Drama
,
Biography
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and more
7.1
74%
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Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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Cast of Before Night Falls
Javier Bardem
Reinaldo Arenas
Olivier Martinez
Lazaro Gomez Carilles
Johnny Depp
Bon Bon / Lieutenant Victor
Andrea Di Stefano
Pepe Malas
Santiago Magill
Tomas Diego
John Ortiz
Juan Abreu
Héctor Babenco
Virgilio Pinera
Francisco Gattorno
Jorge Camacho
Marisol Padilla Sánchez
Margarita Camacho
Michael Wincott
Herberto Zorilla Ochoa
Sean Penn
Cuco Sanchez
Najwa Nimri
Fina Zorilla Ochoa
Diego Luna
Carlos
Diahnne Abbott
Blanca Romero
Jerzy Skolimowski
Professor
Alfredo Villa
Armando García
Rene Rivera
Recruit Driver
Maurice Compte
Nicolas Abreu
Vincent Laresca
Jose Abreu
Olatz López Garmendia
Reinaldo's Mother
Nemo Librizzi
Pedro the Bus Driver
Giovani Florido
Young Reinaldo
Loló Navarro
Reinaldo's Grandmother
Batan Silva
Reinaldo's Father
Carmen Beato
Teacher
Cy Schnabel
Smallest School Child
Olmo Schnabel
Smallest School Child
Vito Schnabel
Teenage Reinaldo
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Reinaldo's Grandfather
Lia Chapman
Lolin
Aquiles Benites
Translator
Ewa Piaskowska
Pretty Blonde Student
Patricia Reyes Spíndola
María Teresa Freye de Andrade
Marlene Díaz
Woman in Car #1
Olga Borayo
Woman in Car #2
Manolo García
Faustino
Lola Schnabel
Girl With Keys
Ofelia Medina
Landlady
Lois Barragán
Woman - UNEAC
Eduardo Antonio
Nightclub Singer
Stella Schnabel
Valeria
Manuel González
Jose Lezama Lima
Claudette Maillé
Maria Luisa Lima
Chanel Puertas
Blonde on the Beach
Manolo Rivero
Royal Gay
Andrea Fassler
French Tourist
Magda
Santería Dancer
Julian Bucio
Violent Soldier
Jorge Zárate
Prosecutor
Jorge Zamora
Kid with Kite
Noel Medina
Policeman on Beach
Jorge Zepeda
State Security on Beach
Yulian Díaz
Teenager #1
Eduardo Arroyuelo
Teenager #2
Antonio Zavala Kugler
Stranger in Lenin Park
Eloy Ganuza
State Security in Lenin Park
Khotan Fernández
Young Man with Bird
René Pereyra
Antonio
Abel Woolrich
Hungry Inmate
Mario Oliver
Gay Inmate
Robertico Valdez
Singing Prisoner
Claudio Osoria
Guard at El Morro
Caridad Martinez
Dancer in the Convent
Zulema Cruz
Zulema
Annie Gil
Blanca's Teenage Daughter
Filiberto Estrella
Dwarf
Juan Cristóbal Murillo
Immigration Officer
Melanio Filiberto Hebra
Man at Mariel Harbor
Matthias Ehrenberg
Officer at Mariel Harbor / Producer
Jack Schnabel
Mr. Greenberg
Esther G. Schnabel
Mrs. Greenberg
Xavier Domingo
Death
Eric Springer
Orderly
Jimmy Nugent
Taxi Driver
Julian Schnabel
Director / Writer
Cunningham O'Keefe
Writer
Lázaro Gómez Carriles
Writer
Jon Kilik
Producer
Before Night Falls Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Clearly this is Bardem's show. And Bardem walks away with it.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
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.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
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.
Houston Chronicle
Consistently intriguing and surprisingly entertaining.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
The best American movie since American Beauty.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
A visually arresting, well-acted biopic that would be better in Spanish.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
The main reason to see Before Night Falls is Bardem, one of the few modern actors with real animal appeal and the guts to show it.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Bardem hasn't the charisma to bring variety to Arenas or his plight.
Variety
David Rooney
Schnabel has fashioned a dense, emotionally satisfying portrait of a man, a time and a place.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Always watchable and often engrossing.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Arenas is not presented as a cliche, as the heroic gay artist crushed by totalitarian straightness, but as a man who might have been approximately as unhappy no matter where he was born.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's the emotional and spiritual arc of an exile, in all its terrible isolation, that gives Before Night Falls its power.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Gives you a sense of Arenas' life, and the time and place in which he lived, that's as vivid as you're likely to experience in a movie biography.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Before Night Falls is such a vivid experience that it holds you fully in each moment.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Before Night Falls lays bare not just the cruelty of Cuba's totalitarianism but its spiritual essence.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
Enjoy Before Night Falls as a great movie, and as a celebration of one man's spiritual and artistic fortitude.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
A spellbinding treatment of the life of the late Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas that also confirms painter Julian Schnabel as a director of the first rank.
USA Today
Spain's Javier Bardem gives an undeniably dynamic lead performance that lifts this labor of love over its incessant downer premise.
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