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If you're looking for an interesting pair of videos to rent why don't you try this student and master combination: Before Night Falls and Sayat Nova. They are both very good movies and they are both 'director's movies. They will make a nice double bill that will tell you a lot about the director's craft. It will also help you to understand what the word 'original' means when it is applied to Julian Schnabel. You might, otherwise, easily misapprehend. |
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Before Night Falls is a film about the great Cuban poet Reinaldo Arena. Schnabel claimed that when he read Arena's work he felt that he had been commanded to make this film of Arena's life. How very fortunate for him, then, that he had Parajanoff's Sayat Nova to turn to for a complete and entirely original visual language. Sayat Nova is also a film about a poet. . .also a film about a poet's childhood, youth and death.
OK, let's be frank. When you are looking at the child poet gazing at the hairy bearded naked Armenian men in Sayat Nova, and the child poet gazing at the hairy naked bearded Cuban men in Before Night Falls, you are looking at the same film. Except Cubanized.
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