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Mood:
- CleverContemplativeGloomySincereStylizedThought Provoking
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Plot:
- Writer's LifeSocietyCourtroom DramaArtists and Showbiz
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Genres:
- DramaIndependentExperimentalPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20s50s
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Place:
- Courtroom
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Based on:
- BiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Howl, 2010
English
USA
Profile of Howl
The mood of Howl is clever, thought provoking, and gloomy. The plot centers around the life of a writer, society, and courtroom drama. It is a drama, independent, and period movie. Stylistically, Howl is experimental. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Howl takes place, at least partly, in a courtroom. It happens in the 1920s and in the 1950s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story.
Summary of Howl
It’s San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society’s reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment—the birth of a counterculture.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 January 2010 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Allen Ginsberg
as Gail Potter
as Jake Ehrlich
as Professor David Kirk
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Users Reviews
- 26.September.2010
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- by: uber1
- uber1 rated this movie6/10Okay
- 26.September.2010
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- by: ccaprica
- ccaprica rated this movie5/10So-so
