Review of Before Night Falls

While this biopic of Reinaldo Arenas has a good feel for the time period of Cuba years ago, and has a good performance by Javier Bordem in the lead (and a good couple of cameos by Johnny Depp), the film is also unfocused. When I think I have the story in check, it seems to be changing in a weird way. It has a lot of Arenas' poetry, however it seems misplaced when it comes, despite it being good. And one more question, who did Sean Penn play? I couldn't recognize him at all. B-