“[T]he film is moving, enthralling even”

- Peter Brunette

“[I]t is irregularly paced and suffers from a lack of dramatic thrust. None of the many characters who come in and out of Arenas' life are developed in any depth”

- Arthur Lazere

Before Night Falls

A biographical take on gay Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas, who was imprisoned by Castro, defected to NY and later killed himself. Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Michael Wincott. Director: Julian Schnabel (2000, R)