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Release Date: Jan 26, 2001; Limited Release: Dec 22, 2000; Rated: R; Length: 125 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Javier Bardem
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Julian Schnabel's lyrical and wounding biographical epic may be the first dramatic feature to take us deep inside the lush, crumbling fortress of Fidel Castro's Cuba. As the gay novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas, who became a prisoner of the Castro regime, Javier Bardem, wearing a melancholy half-smile as ambiguous as the Mona Lisa's, carries himself with a mournful, catlike tentativeness. The film zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it. A
Posted Jan 19, 2001
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