Before Night Falls

Before Night Falls is a 2000 drama film, directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe and Lázaro Gómez Carriles. The film stars Javier Bardem, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Santiago Magill, Johnny Depp and Michael Wincott.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Before Night Falls is based on the autobiography of the same name, written by the Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas. In the film is Arenas, who is openly gay, was born in Oriente in 1943 and is raised by his single mother and her parents, which quickly the whole family moved to Holguín. After he moved to Havana to continue his studies in the 1960s, begins to discover his ambitions, at the same time as Reinaldo his sexuality.
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After obtaining a honorable mention in a writing contest is offered a chance to publish his work Arenas. Through his work and friendships with other gay men (as Pepe Malasand Thomas Diego) succeeds Arenas managed to find himself.

The political climate in Cuba begins to be dangerous, and in the early seventies Arenas is arrested for sexually assaulting minors, and to issue his work without permission.In the next decade is Arenas released a number of times and picked up again, due to trying to get out of the country and the failure.

In 1980 then leaves to go to America to Arenas finally Cuba and build a new life there with good friend and lover Lazaro Gomez Carilles. Some years later, and after a number of Arenas aidsyears suffering he dies in 1990, with a little help from Lazaro. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == The Spanish actress and singer Najwa Nimri briefly appears as the suicidal Fina Zorilla Ochoa, and Diego Luna (which is rather unknown was at that time) has a small role as Carlos, Reinaldo's a friend from his childhood. Director Julian Schnabels complete family is also in the film: sons Cy Schnabel and Olmo Schnabel play classmates of the young Reinaldo, son Vito Maria Schnabel plays the teen version of Reinaldo, daughter Lola Schnabel plays ' the girl with the keys ', and daughter Stella Schnabel plays the role of Valeria. His parents Jack Schnabel and Esther g. Schnabel appear as Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg at the end of the film, Olatz López Garmendia plays Reinaldo's his wife and mother. ==Production[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="168" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Schnabel got the idea to make Before Night Falls immediately after making Basquiat, even though it took four years to produce the movie indeed.
 * Javier Bardem as Reinaldo Arenas
 * Olivier Martinez as Lazaro Gomez Carilles
 * Andrea Di Stefano as Pepe Malas
 * Santiago Magill as Tomas Diego
 * John Ortiz as Joe Abreu
 * Héctor Babenco- Virgilio Pinera as
 * Manuel González as Jose Lezama Lima
 * Francisco Gattorno as Jorge Camacho
 * Marisol Padilla Sánchez as Margarita Camacho
 * Johnny Depp as Bon Bon & lt. Victor
 * Michael Wincott as Herberto Zorilla Ochoa
 * Sean Penn as Cuco Sanchez