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Before Night Falls (US Version) DVD Region 1

Johnny Depp (Actor) | Najwa Nimri (Actor) | Julian Schnabel (Actor, Director) | Javier Bardem (Actor)
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Before Night Falls (US Version)

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The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual revolution and homosexual subculture in Havana to persecution and imprisonment under the policies of Fidel Castro for being both gay and a writer. Despite the harsh conditions of prison, the courageous Arenas continued not only to write but also to publish his works abroad. Ultimately, he was allowed to leave Cuba for America, but there he faced new struggles as a man without a country battling AIDS. Schnabel's beautifully filmed sophomore directorial effort captures the essence of Cuba during the revolution. Johnny Depp is featured in the dual supporting roles of the cross-dressing prison inmate, Bon Bon, and the brutal officer, Lieutenant Victor. A well-disguised Sean Penn appears as Cuco Sanchez. Olivier Martinez as Lázaro Gómez Carillo and Andrea Di Stefano as Pepe Malas deliver standout performances. The film received accolades at the 2000 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.

"...[A] powerful true story....Viscerally evocative..." - Glenn, Kenny (Premiere/Entertainment Weekly Critic), Premiere, 12/01/2000

"...[Javier Bardem] gives an undeniably dynamic performance....[Penn and Depp's cameos] are brief and well-integrated..." -- 3 out of 4 stars - Mike, Clark (USA Today Critic), USA Today, 12/21/2000

Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's "Owen Gleiberman's BEST MOVIES OF 2000" -- "...[Bardem is] marvelous and moving..." - Owen, Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 12/22/2000

"...Lushly beautiful..." - Peter, Matthews (Sight And Sound Critic), Sight and Sound, 06/01/2001

"...Ambitious, stylistically audacious and intelligent....A complex and rewarding film..." - Frank, Scheck (Hollywood Reporter movie critic), Hollywood Reporter, 10/17/2000

"...Redolent of atmosphere and rapturously cinematic, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS has a gift for creating visual mood that's so strong you'd swear it couldn't last -- but you'd be wrong..." - Kenneth, Turan (Los Angeles Times Critic), Los Angeles Times, 12/22/2000

"...Schnabel, the painter, makes his screen a rich canvas of dream sequences, fragmented childhood memories and the wild Cuban demimonde inhabited by Arenas and others who do not conform..." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 02/02/2001

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Product Title: Before Night Falls (US Version) Before Night Falls (US Version) Before Night Falls (US Version) Before Night Falls (US Version) Before Night Falls (US Version)
Artist Name(s): Johnny Depp (Actor) | Najwa Nimri (Actor) | Julian Schnabel (Actor) | Javier Bardem (Actor) | Dale Dickey (Actor) | Hector Babenco (Actor) | Lazaro Gomez Carriles (Actor) | Olatz Lapez Garmendia (Actor) | Sean Penn (Actor) | Michael Wincott (Actor) | Cunningham O'Keefe 尊尼特普 (Actor) | 妮娃琳莉 (Actor) | 祖利安斯納貝爾 (Actor) | 查維爾巴頓 (Actor) | Dale Dickey (Actor) | Hector Babenco (Actor) | Lazaro Gomez Carriles (Actor) | Olatz Lapez Garmendia (Actor) | 辛潘 (Actor) | Michael Wincott (Actor) | Cunningham O'Keefe 尊尼特普 (Actor) | 妮娃琳莉 (Actor) | 祖利安斯纳贝尔 (Actor) | 查维尔巴顿 (Actor) | Dale Dickey (Actor) | Hector Babenco (Actor) | Lazaro Gomez Carriles (Actor) | Olatz Lapez Garmendia (Actor) | 辛潘 (Actor) | Michael Wincott (Actor) | Cunningham O'Keefe ジョニー・デップ (Actor) | Najwa Nimri (Actor) | Julian Schnabel (Actor) | Javier Bardem (Actor) | Dale Dickey (Actor) | Hector Babenco (Actor) | Lazaro Gomez Carriles (Actor) | Olatz Lapez Garmendia (Actor) | ショーン・ペン (Actor) | Michael Wincott (Actor) | Cunningham O'Keefe Johnny Depp (Actor) | Najwa Nimri (Actor) | Julian Schnabel (Actor) | Javier Bardem (Actor) | Dale Dickey (Actor) | Hector Babenco (Actor) | Lazaro Gomez Carriles (Actor) | Olatz Lapez Garmendia (Actor) | Sean Penn (Actor) | Michael Wincott (Actor) | Cunningham O'Keefe
Director: Julian Schnabel | Sean Penn 祖利安斯納貝爾 | 辛潘 祖利安斯纳贝尔 | 辛潘 Julian Schnabel | ショーン・ペン Julian Schnabel | Sean Penn
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Release Date: 2001-05-22
UPC Code: 794043525124
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Slovak
Country of Origin: United States
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: Letterboxed
Color Information: Color
Sound Information: SurroundSound, Dolby Digital 5.1, Digital Sound
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating: R (MPAA)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Package Weight: 110 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004492417

Product Information

Director: Julian Schnabel

DVD Features:

Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
Documentary: Interview with Reinaldo Arenas
Audio Commentary: Julian Schnabel - Director
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
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Biographies: Cast & Crew
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