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Before Night Falls (2000)

★ 6.7 · 302 ratings on TMDB
Before Night Falls poster★ 6.7

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.

DirectorJulian Schnabel
CastAndrea Di Stefano, Francisco Gattorno, Héctor Babenco, Javier Bardem, John Ortiz, Johnny Depp
GenresDrama
The emergence reading

Before Night Falls keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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