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Overview
User Rating:7.2/10 8,048 votes
Director:Julian Schnabel
Writers:Cunningham
O'Keefe (written by) &
Lázaro Gómez Carriles (written by) ...
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Release Date:26 January 2001 (USA) more
Genre:Biography | Drama more
Plot:Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo
Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood... more | add synopsis
Plot Keywords:Gay Latino | Male Nudity | Male Full Frontal Nudity
| Latino | Homosexual more
Awards:Nominated for Oscar. Another 11 wins & 15 nominations
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NewsDesk:
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Original Music by Carter Burwell (music
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Also
Known As:Antes
que anochezca (USA: Spanish title)
Antes que
anochezca Argentina / Peru / Spain / USA (Spanish title)
Avant la nuit France
Avant que tombe la nuit Canada (French title)
Bevor es Nacht wird Germany
Ennen y?t? Finland
Miel?tt leszáll az éj Hungary
Prije noci Croatia
Prima che sia notte Italy
Prin pesei i nyhta Greece
Viata si epoca lui Reynaldo Arenas Romania
MPAA:Rated R for strong sexual content, some language and brief
violence.
Parents Guide:Add content advisory for parents
Runtime:133 min | South Korea:123 min
Country:USA
Language:English | Spanish | Russian | French
Color:Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:Dolby Digital
Certification:New Zealand:R13 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A
(Alberta) | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | Canada:AA (Ontario)
| Canada:PA (Manitoba) | UK:15 (cut) | Portugal:M/16 | Canada:14A
(Ontario - 2006) | Finland:K-15 (2007) (self applied) (TV rating)
| Finland:K-18 (2006) (self applied) (TV rating) | Argentina:16
| Australia:MA | Chile:18 | France:U | Peru:18 | Singapore:R(A)
| Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16
(canton of Vaud) | USA:R | South Korea:15 (cut)
Filming Locations:New York, USA more
MOVIEmeter: 12% since last week why?
Company:El Mar Pictures more
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Synopsis
Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo
Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to
his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964,
he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a
love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is
a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get
him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters
for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro
Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in
Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked
why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge." Written
by {jhailey@hotmail.com} (See
here)
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Cast
Olatz López Garmendia ... Reinaldo's
Mother (as Olatz Lopez Garmendia)
Giovanni Florido ... Young Reinaldo (as Giovani Florido)
Loló Navarro ... Reinaldo's Grandmother
Sebastián Silva ... Reinaldo's Father
Carmen Beato ... Teacher
Cy Schnabel ... Smallest School Child (as Cy)
Olmo Schnabel ... Smallest School Child
Vito Maria Schnabel ... Teenage Reinaldo
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. ... Reinaldo's Grandfather (as Pedro Armendáriz)
Diego Luna
... Carlos
Lia Chapman ... Lolin
Sean Penn
... Cuco Sanchez
Jerzy Skolimowski ... Professor
Aquiles Benites ... Translator
Eva Piaskowska ... Pretty Blonde Student
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Winner
of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival,
Before Night Falls is a richly imagined journey into the
life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile
Reinaldo Arenas. Directed and co-written by Julian Schnabel
(basquiat (1996)), the film stars Spanish actor Javier Bardem
(Live Flesh (1997), jamon, Jamon (1992)), whose eloquent,
complex performance as Arenas earned him the 2000 Venice
Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor.
Before
Night Falls spans the whole of Arenas' life, from his rural
childhood and his early embrace of the Revolution to the
persecution he would later experience as a writer and homosexual
in Castro's Cuba; from his departure from Cuba in the Mariel
Harbor exodus of 1980 to his exile and death in the United
States. It is a portrait of a man whose search for freedom
- artistic, political, sexual - defied poverty, censorship,
persecution, exile and death. Like Arenas' work, Before
Night Falls combines passages of transporting imagination
with urgent realism; in so doing, it embodies the creative
ethos to which Arenas dedicated himself: transforming experience
into unfettered expression.
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Reinaldo
Arenas was born on July 16, 1943 to a beautiful young woman
(Olatz Lopez Garmendia) who was soon abandoned by Reinaldo's
father. Consigning herself to a life of bitter chastity
in this machismo society, Reinaldo's mother returned with
him to her parents' farm in Cuba's Oriente province. Reinaldo's
childhood was defined by the contrast between his family's
unmitigated poverty and the natural splendor that surrounded
him; in the abundance and anonymity conferred by those opposing
circumstances, he found an immeasurable freedom. The boy
followed his impulses, whether he was writing poetry, watching
young men bathe nude in the river or reveling in the unpredictability
of a torrential downpour.
In 1958,
Reinaldo's family moved to the town of Holguín. Though still
in his teens, he joined Castro's insurgency to overthrow
the dictator Fulgencio Batista. With the triumph of the
Revolution, Reinaldo was able to partake in the new government's
ambitious program to educate its youth. By 1962, Reinaldo
(Javier Bardem) was attending the University of Havana and
living in a cosmopolitan city that pulsed with excitement
and possibility. He discovered that a sexual revolution
was occurring alongside the official Revolution, and his
wide range of lovers included the volatile, alluring Pepe
Malas (Andrea Di Stefano) who introduced him to Havana's
thriving homosexual subculture.
In those
early days of the Revolution, Reinaldo's life was an exploration
of his identity as a writer and a homosexual, each activity
pursued with zest and joy. He entered a storytelling contest,
and his evident gifts led to his securing work at the prestigious
National Library. He was befriended by some of Cuba's most
celebrated writers, including Virgilio Pi?era (Hector Babenco)
and José Lezama Lima (Manuel Gonzalez).
At the
age of 20, he wrote his first novel, 'Singing From the Well'
(Celestino antes del alba), which was awarded First Mention
in the country's Cirilo Villaverde National Competition.
'Singing
From the Well' was to be Reinaldo's only book published
in his native country. By the late 1960s, the Cuban government
had begun a brutal crackdown on artists and homosexuals.
Writers were forced to renounce their work and homosexuals
were rounded up and sent to labor camps whose flowery titles
belied their cruelty. Despite the danger, Reinaldo continued
to write, giving free reign to his irreverent, outspoken
vision. His second novel, 'Hallucinations' (El mundo alucinante),
was smuggled out of Cuba and published in France, earning
him the hostility of Castro's government. For the next several
years, he was subject to relentless persecution, as the
government and the police searched his rooms, confiscated
his work and threatened his friends.
In 1973,
following an altercation on the beach, Reinaldo was falsely
accused of sexual molestation and arrested. He escaped from
jail and made a desperate attempt to flee the island in
an inner tube. The attempt failed; Reinaldo was now a fugitive.
He was re-arrested near Lenin Park and sent to the notorious
El Morro prison, where he served two years alongside murderers,
rapists and common criminals. He survived by composing letters
to the inmates' wives and lovers; those favors enabled him
to accumulate the paper and pencils he needed for his own
writing. However, his attempts to smuggle his work out of
the prison were found out and he was brutally punished.
Faced with the choice of renouncing his work or disappearing
from this earth, Reinaldo chose the former.
Upon
his release from El Morro, Reinaldo was an award-winning
writer without a place to live. A friend found him a room
at the hotel, and it was there that Reinaldo met Lázaro
Gómez Carriles (Olivier Martinez), who became his great
friend.
In 1980,
Castro allowed homosexuals, mental patients and criminals
to leave Cuba in the Mariel Harbor boatlift; a last-minute
change to his passport allowed Reinaldo to leave the country
undetected. Settling in New York, he began his life as an
exile: impoverished and stateless, but with his appetite
for life and writing still fierce, his humor, rage and honesty
intact. His struggles were far from over, though; after
he contracted AIDS, he waged a truly furious race against
death to complete his works-in-progress. By the time of
his death in 1990, Reinaldo had written over 20 books, including
10 novels as well as numerous short stories, poems, essays
and plays. His body of work is arguably the most passionate
and angry ever written against the totalitarian state. Reinaldo
Arenas' memoir, 'Before Night Falls', was published in English
in 1993 and was listed by 'The New York Times Book Review'
as one of the year's Best Books.
Twentieth
Century Fox is proud to present a Grandview Pictures production,
Before Night Falls, directed by Julian Schnabel, based on
the work of author Reinaldo Arenas, including the memoir
'Before Night Falls' and the novels 'Hallucinations', 'The
Color of Summer' and 'The Palace of the White Skunks'. Written
by Cunningham O'Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles and Julian
Schnabel and produced by Jon Kilik, the film stars Javier
Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp,
Sean Penn, Michael Wincott, Olatz Lopez Garmendia and Vito
Maria Schnabel. The directors of photography are Xavier
Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas, the editor Michael Berenbaum,
the production designer Salvador Parra and the costume designer
Mariestela Fernández. The film's composer is Carter Burwell,
with additional music by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Twentieth
Century Fox is releasing Before Night Falls throughout Latin
America.
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Before
Night Falls is a brilliantly devised and executed account
about the famed Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas. The film documents
his childhood as a peasant, his support for Castro's rebels
as an idealist youth, and as a man, his struggles, not just
as an independent thinker but also as a gay man living in
Communist Cuba. Throughout the film we respond to his hopes,
fears, and claustrophobia as we witness the persecution of
a true artist.
As a
student of Latin American History and Literature I was pleased
with the way the film handled the historical context of
Arenas' time. The political context of Before Night Falls
shouldn't come as any surprise. The artistic, social and
political invisibility of gays in Cuba under the Cuban Revolution
represented a dark stain on the revolutionary record. In
1965 Fidel Castro told Lee Lockwood (in Castro's Cuba, Cuba's
Fidel) that `we would never come to believe that a homosexual
could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct
that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary,
a true communist militant. A deviation of that nature clashes
with the concept we have of what a militant Communist must
be' In the mid-1960's, the infamous UMAP work camps (Unidades
Militares de Auyuda a la Producción) sought to rehabilitate
what they perceived as alleged antisocial elements. This
is an event that is accurately depicted in Schnabel's film.
The purges and denunciations of homosexuals continued into
the 1980's. Today in Cuba discrimination against gays still
represents a major problem. The revolution dealt with gender
and racial discrimination but not with discrimination against
gays. This is all documented with stunning use of archival
footage and reference accounts from Arenas' autobiography.
Any
review of the film would be incomplete without mentioning
Javier Bardem's work. I have seen a lot of movies and few
performances are even in the same league as Bardem's. I
was fascinated with how he carried this film with a performance
that must have been very difficult for him to adjust to.
The supporting work by Johnny Depp should also be praised.
His dual performance, for me, accurately identified how
many within Castro's army may have used their positions
as a front to deny their own sexuality as well. Overall,
I was very impressed with this film and I highly recommend
it
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Before
Night Falls (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IMDb profile
Before Night Falls is a 2000 movie directed by Julian Schnabel.
The screenplay is based on the autobiography of Reinaldo
Arenas, which was published in English in 1993 [1]. The
screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe and
Lázaro Gómez Carriles.
It stars
Javier Bardem, who was nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Actor, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Santiago
Magill, Johnny Depp and Michael Wincott.
This
was the second film of director Julian Schnabel, after Basquiat
(1996). Schnabel got the idea of making Before Night Falls
immediately after making Basquiat , however it took four
years to actually produce the film. [2] It had its world
premiere at the 2000 Venice International Film Festival
and its North American premiere at the 2000 Toronto Film
Festival [3].
Synopsis
In Cuba, after the Cuban revolution in 1959, gay Cuban poet
and novelist Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) is arrested
after two boys who have stolen from him accuse him falsely
of sexual assault.[4]. He later gets into trouble for having
books written by him smuggled out of the country and having
them published abroad. Thus for a decade he goes in and
out of Cuban prisons [5]. He escapes from prison and tries
to leave Cuba by launching himself from the shore on a tire
inner tube. The attempt fails and he is rearrested. He helps
other inmates to write letters to wives and lovers. He is
forced to renounce his books and is released. In 1980 he
is told that, as part of the Mariel Boatlift, he is allowed
to emigrate because of being gay. After first suspecting
this might be a trick, he succesfully claims gayness, and
moves to Miami.
He is
stricken with AIDS, and without health insurance, he kills
himself in 1990 in New York [6]. A friend is present, he
promises not to alert medical services. Moreover, he speeds
up death by suffocation with a pillow.(More)
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The
Writer of the novel Reynaldo Arenas
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Life
Arenas
was born in the countryside, in the northern part of the
Province of Oriente,
Cuba, and later moved
to the city of Holguin. In 1963, he moved
to Havana to enroll in the School of Planification and,
later, in the Faculty of Letters at the Universidad de La
Habana, where he studied philosophy and literature without
completing a degree. The following year, he began working
at the Biblioteca
Nacional Jose Marti. [1][dead link]
While there, his talent was noticed and he was awarded prizes
at Cirilo Villaverde National Competition held by UNEAC
(National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists). [2]
Interestingly, his Hallucinations was awarded "first
Honorable Mention" in 1966 although, as the judges could
find no better entry, no First Prize was awarded that year.
[3]
His
writings and openly gay lifestyle were, by 1967, bringing
him into conflict with the Communist government. He left
the Biblioteca Nacional and became an editor for the Cuban
Book Institute until 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was a journalist
and editor for the literary magazine La Gaceta de Cuba.
In 1973, he was sent to prison after being charged and convicted
of 'ideological deviation' and for publishing abroad without
official consent. He escaped from prison and tried to leave
Cuba by launching himself from the shore on a tire inner
tube. The attempt failed and he was rearrested near Lenin
Park and imprisoned at the notorious El Morro Castle
alongside murderers and rapists. He survived by helping
the inmates to write letters to wives and lovers. He was
able to collect enough paper this way to continue his writing.
However, his attempts to smuggle his work out of prison
were discovered and he was severely punished. Threatened
with death, he was forced to renounce his work and was released
in 1976. [4][dead link]
In 1980, as part of the Mariel Boatlift, he fled
to the United States. [5]
Writings
Despite his short life and the hardships imposed
during his imprisonment, Arenas produced a significant body
of work. His Pentagonia is a set of
five novels that comprise a "secret history" of post-revolutionary
Cuba. It includes the poetical Farewell to the Sea,
Palace of the White
Skunks and the Rabelaisian Color
of Summer. In these novels Arenas鈥?style ranges
from a stark realist narrative to absurd satiric humor.
He traces his own life story in what to him is the absurd
world of Castro's Cuba. In each of the novels Arenas himself
is a major character, going by a number of pseudonyms. His
autobiography, Before Night Falls
was on the New York Times list
of the ten best books of the year in 1993. In 2000 this
work was made into a film, directed
by Julian Schnabel, in which
Arenas was played by Javier Bardem.
Death
In 1987, Arenas was diagnosed with AIDS, but he continued to write and
speak out against the Cuban government. He mentored many
Cuban exile writers, including
John O'Donnell-Rosales. After battling AIDS, Arenas committed
suicide by taking an overdose of drugs and alcohol on December
7, 1990, in New York. In a suicide letter written
for publication, Arenas wrote:
Due
to my delicate state of health and to the terrible depression
it causes me not to be able to continue writing and struggling
for the freedom of Cuba, I am ending my life. . . . I
want to encourage the Cuban people out of the country
as well as on the Island to continue fighting for freedom.
. . Cuba will be free. I already am. [6]
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Date
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16 July 1943, Holguín, Cuba |
Date
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7 December 1990, New York, New York, USA (AIDS) |
Birth
Name
Reinaldo Arenas |
Trivia Cuban author who spent
most of his life fighting against the Casto Regmine.Managed
to escape from Cuba by changing his name to Arinas on his
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The book:" Before Night Falls: A Memoir (Paperback)"
(Amazon
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Before
Night Falls: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Reinaldo Arenas (Author), Dolores M. Koch (Translator)
"It's going to be a great nuisance for both of us,"
said Freddy..." (more)
Key Phrases: agricultural accountants, penalty cell, ward
chiefs, Fidel Castro, United States, Hiram Prado (more...)
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Editorial
Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this powerful memoir of passions both personal and political,
Cuban author Arenas ( Hallucinations ) describes his voyage
from peasant poverty to his oppression as a dissident writer
and homosexual. His voracious sexuality pervades the book
(numerous encounters are described), and Arenas suggests
that the gay worldis instinctually non-monogamous, though
he was celibate in the "monstrosity" of prison.
The young Arenas, in the early days of Fidel Castro's revolution,
gained his literary education working at the National Library;
he then joined a fervent literary cricle. The Castro regime,
however, banned his first novel, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations
of Fray Servando , and Arenas had to evade security police
to smuggle manuscripts abroad for publication. Protesting
Castro's support of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia,
Arenas suffered forced labor in the sugarcane fields, spent
more than two years in prison after being prosecuted as
a homosexual counterrevolutionary and managed to gain exile
along with many other gays during the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
Having appended a fierce denunciation to this book of those
seeking dialogue with Castro, the 47-year-old Arenas, who
was suffering from AIDS, committed suicide in New York City
in 1990.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
From
Library Journal
This celebrated Cuban writer ( The Doorman , LJ 5/15/91;
Singing from the Well , LJ 7/87), a victim of AIDS, committed
suicide in New York in 1990. His autobiographical memoir
is a fascinating and frightening tale of growing up extremely
poor in rural Cuba, of varied personal and political relationships,
of rebelliousness, homosexuality, suppression, and persecution.
In the picaresque tradition, the narrative is earthy and
at times raw; the frequent sexual escapades are presumably
true accounts. The description of life in Havana's El Morro
prison makes the skin crawl. As an author who was not only
antiregime but also gay, Arenas was compelled to smuggle
his work abroad for publication. More than a personal story,
this memoir is an insightful analysis of the idiosyncrasies
of an authoritarian regime. Recommended for literature collections.
- Charles E. Perry, East Central Univ., Ada, Okla.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
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More
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The
Director: Julian Schnabel (here)
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Overview
Trivia:
Singing
in a rock band in Brownsville, Texas, when he was a teenager,...
more
Awards:
Nominated
for Oscar. Another 13 wins & 11 nominations more
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Filmography
- Before
Night Falls (2000) (written by)
... aka Antes que anochezca (USA: Spanish title)
- Basquiat (1996) (written by)
... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire
- Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007) (music
supervisor)
... aka Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (France)
... aka The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (International:
English title)
- Before
Night Falls (2000) (executive producer)
... aka Antes que anochezca (USA: Spanish title)
- Basquiat (1996) (writer: "Suicide Hotline Mode", "She
Is Dancing")
... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire
- Basquiat (1996)
... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire
Archive
Footage:
Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (2006) (TV) .... Himself
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The actor: Javier Bardem
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Overview
Mini
Biography:
Javier
Bardem is the youngest member of a family of actors that
has been... more
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 60 wins & 24 nominations more
Alternate
Names:
Javier
Encinas | Benito Gonz醠ez (more)
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Javier
ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is an Academy
Award-winning and critically acclaimed Spanish actor who
has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered
critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jamon,
Jamon, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and
Mar adentro.
Bardem
has been awarded a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild
Award, BAFTA, four Goyas, two European Film Awards and
two Coppa Volpis for his work. He is notable as the
first Spanish actor to be nominated and win an Oscar,
the nomination being for Before Night Falls and the
historic Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for
the 2007 film No Country for Old Men.(more)
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