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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036008822
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages:English Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 French Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 Russian Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1 English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: August 05, 2002
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2001
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film Basquiat was relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamoured of his subject as a noble martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance. Still, it's rare to see an artist's life and work so elegantly interwoven, and Before Night Falls uses all of Arenas's life as its canvas, from impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba; imprisonment during Castro's antigay regime; and to New York City in 1980, followed by Arenas's battle with AIDS and subsequent suicide (depicted here as assisted) in 1990.
Through these extreme rises and falls, Arenas is always writing; his typewriter his most faithful lover and weapon (by way of smuggled manuscripts) against the dark forces that surround him. As Time magazine's Richard Corliss wrote, Arenas is "a serious actor's dream role: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play," and Javier Bardem--the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar nomination--inhabits the role with subtle ferocity, charting this emotional odyssey with outer reserve but blazing infernos of internal passion. While Schnabel suffers from a hyperactive camera, there's poetry here--visual, dramatic, and literal--and vibrant humour to temper the deep tragedy of Arenas's life. Schnabel also uses his actor friends to good advantage: a nearly unrecognizable Sean Penn adds an ironic touch to his brief appearance as a peasant, and Johnny Depp is both funny and fearsome in dual roles as a drag queen and vicious army interrogator. --Jeff Shannon
Rating:
- One to see...
What can I say...
I saw this movie some years ago at a GLBT film festival in Copenhagen and it left images imprinted on my mind. I found it again here and bought it.
It is funny, sensual and heartbreaking...
Javier Bardem is a handsome man, he acts very convincingly as the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas.
Johnny Depp has a small, very 'Depp' part as a secret police sergeant.
Rating: - colorful, multi-layered and richly-textured
A beautiful film in every terms: from outstanding cinematography to dazzling ambiance, from stirring performances to gripping theme. Having the bittersweet taste of an independent film, it defies categorization, grimly realistic and highly improvisational. What I particularly found captivating is its almost-documentary nature and realness, a razor-sharp realness disguised under character persona.
The film traces the chaotic life of Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, from his unwanted birth ... Read More
Rating:
- Extraordinary!
Julian Schnabel, a painter, has directed one of the most extraordinary films of recent times. I saw it in the theater on its initial release, and reccently watched it on DVD again, and my admiration for it has grown. The first time I saw it, it had been a few years since I had read Arenas' memoirs, on which it is based. From the hedonistic freedom that swept Cuba as Castro took charge , followed too soon after by the most horrific repression that Arenas had to suffer for being a writer and being gay, ... Read More
Rating: - rich moving film about humanity
Having just watched this for the second time in a month, after having first taped it to help with my spanish studies (and because of the added bonus of Johnny Depp being in it!), it is one of my favourite films. I hadn't heard of Reinaldo Arenas previously, but the absolutely perfect performance that Javier Bardem gives, and the beautiful directing of this film, the production, the music, the colourfulness, Johnny Depp and Sean Penn's cameos, the clips of a previously banned film as the credits roll ... ... Read More
Rating:
- Limited appeal
I only watched this because i knew Johnny Depp had a small part in it. I didn't know what it was about and only knew that Depp played a drag queen. Perhaps if i'd known more beforehand my opinion on it would be different.
The film is a biopic of a writer, set in Cuba. We see glimpses of his childhood, to his adult life where he spends a period in jail, basically for being homosexual, up until his death. I could tell you more if i even knew myself. I found it hard to follow what was going on and ... Read More
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Before Night Falls [2001]
starring: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Loló Navarro
directed by: Julian Schnabel
directed by: Julian Schnabel
Our Price: 86,684.40
Prices excluding shipping charge.Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036008822
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages:
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: August 05, 2002
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2001
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- The Sea Inside [2005]
- The Man Who Cried [2000]
- Basquiat [1997]
- The Dancer Upstairs [2002]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film Basquiat was relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamoured of his subject as a noble martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance. Still, it's rare to see an artist's life and work so elegantly interwoven, and Before Night Falls uses all of Arenas's life as its canvas, from impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba; imprisonment during Castro's antigay regime; and to New York City in 1980, followed by Arenas's battle with AIDS and subsequent suicide (depicted here as assisted) in 1990.
Through these extreme rises and falls, Arenas is always writing; his typewriter his most faithful lover and weapon (by way of smuggled manuscripts) against the dark forces that surround him. As Time magazine's Richard Corliss wrote, Arenas is "a serious actor's dream role: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play," and Javier Bardem--the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar nomination--inhabits the role with subtle ferocity, charting this emotional odyssey with outer reserve but blazing infernos of internal passion. While Schnabel suffers from a hyperactive camera, there's poetry here--visual, dramatic, and literal--and vibrant humour to temper the deep tragedy of Arenas's life. Schnabel also uses his actor friends to good advantage: a nearly unrecognizable Sean Penn adds an ironic touch to his brief appearance as a peasant, and Johnny Depp is both funny and fearsome in dual roles as a drag queen and vicious army interrogator. --Jeff Shannon
Average Rating:
Rating:
- One to see...What can I say...
I saw this movie some years ago at a GLBT film festival in Copenhagen and it left images imprinted on my mind. I found it again here and bought it.
It is funny, sensual and heartbreaking...
Javier Bardem is a handsome man, he acts very convincingly as the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas.
Johnny Depp has a small, very 'Depp' part as a secret police sergeant.
Rating:
- colorful, multi-layered and richly-texturedA beautiful film in every terms: from outstanding cinematography to dazzling ambiance, from stirring performances to gripping theme. Having the bittersweet taste of an independent film, it defies categorization, grimly realistic and highly improvisational. What I particularly found captivating is its almost-documentary nature and realness, a razor-sharp realness disguised under character persona.
The film traces the chaotic life of Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, from his unwanted birth ... Read More
Rating:
- Extraordinary!Julian Schnabel, a painter, has directed one of the most extraordinary films of recent times. I saw it in the theater on its initial release, and reccently watched it on DVD again, and my admiration for it has grown. The first time I saw it, it had been a few years since I had read Arenas' memoirs, on which it is based. From the hedonistic freedom that swept Cuba as Castro took charge , followed too soon after by the most horrific repression that Arenas had to suffer for being a writer and being gay, ... Read More
Rating:
- rich moving film about humanityHaving just watched this for the second time in a month, after having first taped it to help with my spanish studies (and because of the added bonus of Johnny Depp being in it!), it is one of my favourite films. I hadn't heard of Reinaldo Arenas previously, but the absolutely perfect performance that Javier Bardem gives, and the beautiful directing of this film, the production, the music, the colourfulness, Johnny Depp and Sean Penn's cameos, the clips of a previously banned film as the credits roll ... ... Read More
Rating:
- Limited appealI only watched this because i knew Johnny Depp had a small part in it. I didn't know what it was about and only knew that Depp played a drag queen. Perhaps if i'd known more beforehand my opinion on it would be different.
The film is a biopic of a writer, set in Cuba. We see glimpses of his childhood, to his adult life where he spends a period in jail, basically for being homosexual, up until his death. I could tell you more if i even knew myself. I found it hard to follow what was going on and ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
