SUN, JULY 31, 6p*:
(*Optional Wolfsonian Exhibition tour is 5pm, 1001 Washington Ave. Film is 6pm at MBC. You can pay at either the Wolfsonian or MBC, or in advance on this page to the left.)
“HAVANA NIGHTS:
Exploring Cuba through Art and Film”
With optional guided tour of the Wolfsonian exhibition Promoting Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction before the film, included in the price!
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
Directed by JULIAN SCHNABEL/2000/2hr, 13mins.
With Javiar Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia
Using external narration and an episodic mix of memories, this film portrays the life of the Cuban intellectual and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943–90). It chronicles the poverty of his early childhood, his persecution by the Castro regime for his literature and homosexual orientation, his decision to leave Cuba during the Mariel boat-lift, and his fate as a stateless individual living in Manhattan during the AIDS crisis.
“In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary”-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The film will be introduced by Frank Luca, Chief Librarian and Adjunct Professor of History, The Wolfsonian–FIU
