Lo scafandro e la farfalla

Body Unwilling, a Mind Takes Flight

Julian Schnabel has made three feature films: “Basquiat,”“Before Night Falls” and now “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” All are biographical, examining the lives of real people, and in each case the protagonist struggles with a condition of literal or metaphorical imprisonment. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mr. Schnabel’s younger colleague in the New York art scene of the 1980s, is trapped by addiction and by his outsider status. Reinaldo Arenas, the gay Cuban poet whose memoir was the basis of “Before Night Falls,” is censored, harassed and locked up by successive dictatorships. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5568 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 30 Novembre 2007