Lorraine Barrett, a former Welsh assembly member who now works as a humanist celebrant, said it was interesting that people had the confidence to declare themselves of no religion or non-Christian.
Schnabel adapted an autobiographical memoir by the poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), a homosexual who was initially a celebrant of the revolution, then a victim of it, and was finally allowed to leave Cuba with the rapists and thieves discarded by Castro in 1980.