Olatz L pez Garmend a, and Vito Maria Schnabel. A Fine Line Features release. It looks like a word. Like ma ana. Schnabel puts stock in these little epiphanies, and it was a chance viewing of a short documentary about oppressed Cuban artists that got him involved in Before Night Falls, his acclaimed second feature about gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas.
Signs can accomplish wonders.
That serendipitous, free-associative approach is also evident in the film s style. I think that the dialogue in the movie is just like people talking, rather being than designed to give you the striving meaning of each scene. It s accumulative, like a life, and at the end you understand what happened. Schnabel, who has no problem with expressing his opinions, explains his own moviemaking by comparing it to another film about a controversial writer, Philip Kaufman s take on the Marquis de Sade in Quills. I think Quills is a nice movie.