The read
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes44%
Metacritic40/100
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Alan GovenarDirector
Cast
- Jean-Jacques LebelSelf
- Harold ChapmanSelf
- Elliot RudieSelf
- Regina WeinreichSelf
- Barry MilesSelf
- Peter GoldingSelf
- Oliver HarrisSelf
- 'Cyclops' LesterSelf
- Allen GinsbergSelf (archive footage)
- William S. BurroughsSelf (archive footage)
- Gregory CorsoSelf (archive footage)
- George WhitmanSelf