Before Night Falls 2000 123movies

Watch: Before Night Falls 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro’s rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, “Revenge.”.
Plot: Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 25,460
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 227 Popularity: 8.318 | TMDB

Reviews:

A truly Fantastic performance by Javier Bardem
A film with strong and powerful moments. The movie uses some documentary footage and exposition about the revolution in Cuba and the problems that people went through, but the real story is about a writer and his struggle to find peace and recognition.

It took some time for me to get invested. It bothered me a bit because the movie is narrated by the writer and you see his life since he was young. So, you would expect you to be invested right away. But, for me it took some time in first act getting in to the story because here and there stock footage would pop up and it would take me out of it. Once the main character ends up being accused for something he didn’t do, the film picks up and his journey becomes riveting.

I like the vintage look of this film, the colors makes it feel like the film was made in the 60’s and 70’s. Johnny Depp is funny playing two roles, but the actor stealing the show is Javier Bardem who is fantastic in this performance. The movie does a good job in making you understand his motives and ambitions. Even though I didn’t care much about his relations, you still understand the fact that it’s just how he is personally and he doesn’t try to force you to like him. He just appears like himself and doesn’t try to be someone he isn’t. Which makes the audience respect him.

The scenes in a prison were really hard hitting, especially when he is forced to be in a tiny, tiny cell. That most be horrifying, and Bardem completely made you believe what kind of a traumatic affect it would have on someone. Brilliantly made.

In short, a fantastic performance all the way through (especially towards the finale), but the film is a bit unbalanced and some of the most interesting parts of the story pass by too soon. It stays a little too long on the writer’s romantic life in the beginning, and unfortunately that aspect wasn’t as compelling as I think the filmmakers were hoping it would be. Everything about the writers escape and the prison scenes are however great and I would still recommend checking it out.

“The panorama of imminent terror…”
Javier Bardem gives an incredible performance in this wrenching autobiography of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas who, in 1980, sought political asylum to the United States via his homosexuality after suffering for years under Castro’s laws decrying “political dissidents and sexual deviates.” Born in the north Province of Oriente in Cuba in 1943, Arenas was raised mostly by his female relatives, his father having been banished from the family early on by his mother. Before he was a teenager, Arenas was already writing (carving words on tree trunks for the lack of paper); by the 1960s, he was in Havana studying at the university and winning awards and admirers. These early scenes work best for the film, as the narrative is lean and direct, and the lovely visual attributes (courtesy cinematographers Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas) clearly delineate a particular (and turbulent) time and place with astonishing skill. This picture truly looks ravishing, and director Julian Schnabel relaxes the pace to help viewers take it all in. Unfortunately, after Arenas is arrested on fatuous molestation charges–and escapes from custody, and then gets caught and is put through hell–the narrative becomes more obscure, with Schnabel relishing in artistic flourishes at the expense of the picture’s immediacy. Arenas becomes the Patron Saint of Suffering and, when Reinaldo finally gets to New York City, what should’ve been an exhilarating moment is squashed together with his sickness and death (10 years later!). It is to Bardem’s credit as an actor that the final scenes work at all, because by this point we have lost touch with the inner-workings of the artist. Putting a writer’s life on film has always been a difficult task for filmmakers (the process of creating isn’t always a cinematic one), but Schnabel was doing so well in the first and second acts–allowing Reinaldo’s talents to bloom–that it’s doubly disappointing his final curtain should play as melodrama. **1/2 from ****

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 13 min (133 min), 2 hr 3 min (123 min) (South Korea)
Budget 0
Revenue 8524534
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
Director Julian Schnabel
Writer Cunningham O’Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles, Julian Schnabel
Actors Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia
Country United States, Mexico
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 23 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL4S, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses, Arriflex 535, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA
Film Length 3,736 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 200T 5274, Vision 800T 5289)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm