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Before Night Falls

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Released: 2001-05-22

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Before Night Falls DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Michael Wincott, Najwa Nimri, Hector Babenco, Vito Maria Schnabel, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jerzy Skolimowski

Director(s): Julian Schnabel

Features:
Widescreen version
5.1 Surround Sound
2.0 stereo Surround Sound
5.1 Spanish audio track
English, Spanish, and French subtitles and English closed captions
Commentary with director Julian Schnabel, actor Javier Bardem, screenwriter Lázaro Gómez-Carriles, composer Carter Burwell, and co-director of photography Xavier Pérez Grobert
Documentary shorts: excerpts from "Improper Conduct," 1983 interview with Reinaldo Arenas, behind-the-scenes/home movie by Lola Schnabel, "Little Notes on Painting" artwork by Julian Schnabel
Cast and crew filmographies
Original theatrical trailer
DVD-ROM content
Link to original website

Before Night Falls DVD Details

Video:
Theatre Wide-Screen
Audio:
5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects
PCM stereo
Language:
English
Spanish
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish

Running Time: 133
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 794043525124
Product Code: NEWL5251DVD
Format: DVD
Year:2000
Studio: New Line Home Video

Before Night Falls DVD Summary For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas.

Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and support he receives from his mother (played by the director's wife, Olatz Lopez Garmendia).

As a young man, Arenas (Javier Bardem) is singled out by his teachers and encouraged to further his skills as a writer -- no easy task, considering the Castro regime's censorship of any work considered to be subversive or anti-authoritarian.

Still, the author manages to smuggle his work out of the country through friends, who arrange for one of his novels to be published in France.

Not only persecuted for his creative beliefs, the openly gay Arenas is jailed on a bogus sex charge; he escapes internment only to be captured and persecuted later for his contraband dispatches.

In 1980, Arenas is finally allowed to leave Cuba for the United States, where he achieves freedom of expression but not prosperity.

Schnabel's first film was another portrait of an artist, 1996's Basquiat; Bardem made his name in several of director Pedro Almodovar's Spanish-language productions.

Before Night Falls premiered at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, where it received the Best Actor and Grand Special Jury prizes, and made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Bardem would go on to receive a host of accolades, including an eventual Best Actor nomination at the 2001 Academy Awards.