The Beat Hotel

Mar 30 2012 Not Rated 1h 28m
Biography, Documentary, History

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.

Plot

1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the movement. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar's documentary "The Beat Hotel" explores this amazing place and time.

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Directed by

Alan Govenar

Cast

Harold Chapman, Peter Golding, Oliver Harris

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# of Votes
92
Average Rating
6.6 out of 10
Metascore
40
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