Word: bardem
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Dead dogs hang from the lampposts in the capital of a mythical South American country. Attached to their carcasses are literate, even ironic, signs announcing a pre-revolutionary terrorist campaign directed at the corrupt and fascist local regime. An honest, weary cop, Augustin Rejas (Javier Bardem), is assigned to investigate. In particular, he must track down "Ezequiel," in whose name the increasingly violent terrorist campaign is being prosecuted...
Actor nominees announced. Tom Hanks (zzzzzzzzzzz), Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe (Who will he take to the Oscars? Meg Ryan? Courtney Love? Leelee Sobieski? Nicole Kidman? Tom Cruise?), Javier Bardem, Ed Harris (directed himself in "Pollock," as if he learned acting from Barbra Streisand...
NOVEL SLEEPER BEFORE NIGHT FALLS FINE LINE Little-known Javier Bardem, who portrays Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, was booked on the Early Show, Rosie, Charlie Rose and Weekend Today, while his director appeared in bookstores nationwide to sign copies of Arenas' work...
THEN AGAIN... For all the dramatic incident and giddy camerawork (Schnabel, whose day job is painting, wants to keep this canvas moving, for any or no reason), the film is pretty logy, a trudging catalog of depredations and atrocities. Bardem hasn't the charisma to bring variety to Arenas or his plight. The only leavenings are guest turns by Depp (good in two roles, as the torturer and a drag queen) and Sean Penn, in gold tooth and brownface, as a skeptical peasant. Penn's twisted delivery of the line, "I won't join the rebels"--it comes...
...male weepie with art-house credentials? Julian Schnabel's sprawling biography of the Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas spans a half-century, two countries, two languages, two extremes of regimes. Batista's rapacious tyranny keeps most people poor; Castro's stern, homophobic communism keeps them miserable. Bardem, who was excellent as the crippled husband in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, plays a noble fellow suffering at the whip hand of a sadistic dreamboat like Johnny Depp, then wilting tragically from AIDS. It's a serious actor's dream role: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play...