You may have a point regarding Before Night Falls. Bardem, however, was certainly great (and let's not forget Depp's little cameo). This was painter/filmmaker Julian Schnabel's second biography of an artist (with Basquiat being the first). His third, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, premiered at Cannes last year and won him the Best Director award. It's currently in limited release in the U.S. I've been told that French actor Mathieu Amalric is quite wonderful in it. The work of Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (Munich) has also been praised.