Before Night Falls
2000
****
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano,Johnny Depp
The life of a freethinking gay writer in communist Cuba was not a bed of roses. This touching true story covers the life of Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) from his early years as a revolutionary and celebrated writer to his later years as a political prisoner, all the way to his death from AIDS. An absorbing drama with a star-turning performance from Javier Bardem. Johnny Depp appears in a distracting double role.
