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Through these excessive upward pushs and falls, Arenas is all the time writing, his typewriter his most trustworthy lover and weapon (by way of smuggled manuscripts) once morest the darkish forces that encompass him. As Time magazine's Richard Corliss wrote, Arenas is "a severe actor's dream function: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play," and Javier Bardem--the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar nomination--inhabits the function with delicate ferocity, charting this emotional odyssey with outer reserve but blazing infernos of inside ardour. And whereas Schnabel suffers from a hyperactive digital camera, there's poetry here--visual, dramatic, and literal--and bright humor to mood the deep tragedy of Arenas's life. Schnabel additionally uses his actor chums to just right advantage: an almost unrecognizable Sean Penn adds an ironic touch to his brief look as a peasant, and Johnny Depp is each funny and fearsome in dual roles as a drag queen and cruel military interrogator. --Jeff Shannon a distant a distant a distant Based on the posthumously published memoir by way of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's 2d train in artist biography, but the place Schnabel's prior movie Basquiat used to be relatively typical, this movie is bolder in each model and execution. Schnabel is in all probability too enamored of hellos topic as a noble martyr, lending the movie a moderately inflated feel of significance. Still, it's rare to peer an artist's existence and work so elegantly interwoven, and Before Night Falls makes use of all of Arenas's lifestyles as its canvas, from impoverished adolescence to energetic gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba; imprisonment all through Castro's antigay regime; and to New York City in 1980, adopted by using Arenas's struggle with AIDS and subsequent suicide (depicted here as assisted) in 1990.. Read more Before Night Falls

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