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Article: Before Night Falls.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2000
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Before Night Falls * Written by Julian Schnabel. Lazaro Gomez Carriles, and Cunningham O'Keefe * Directed by Schnabel * Starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, and Olivier Martinez * Fine Line Features
Filmed literary biographies tend to be Windy, name-dropping affairs that presume writers pull their most famous prose out of breakfast chat and spend angst-ridden nights staring at blank paper in a writer. Unless the director is artist Julian Schnabel (Basquiat), who has made something gloriously visual and grippingly cinematic from the life of the late Cuban poet Reinaido Arenas. Anyone inclined to romanticize Cuba in these winter years of Fidel Castro's regime needs ...