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- 2000
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
- 2000
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
Summary A richly imagined joumey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. [Fine Line Features]
Directed By: Julian Schnabel
- 2000
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
- 2000
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 13 m
Before Night Falls
6.2
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Summary A richly imagined joumey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. [Fine Line Features]
Directed By: Julian Schnabel
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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4% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
85
96% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it.
With Before Night Falls, Schnabel has moved to an entirely new plane of cinematic achievement.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
6.2
61% Positive
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Most of all it's the emotional and spiritual arc of an exile, in all its terrible isolation, that gives ''Before Night Falls'' its power.
A thoughtful, bittersweet film biography of the Cuban writer that captures both his irrepressible spirit and his sometimes overwhelming melancholy.
As good as it is, Before Night Falls might not work if Schnabel hadn't found a leading man to hold it together and the Spanish actor Javier Bardem has the understated charisma to pull it off.
A personal eulogy, from one artist to another, and an indictment of all systems of government that deny people the right to free expression and the full realization of their talent.
Under Schnabel's direction, it becomes stilted and static, if not simplistic.
Production Company
El Mar Pictures,
Grandview Pictures
Release Date Dec 22, 2000
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating R
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
