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Kill Your Darlings
- Director: John Krokidas
- Writer: Austin Bunn; John Krokidas
- Producer: Michael Benaroya; Matthew Vose Campbell
CGiii Comment
These weasels...these contemptible, celebrated literary figures...well, that's the impression that this film gives...
This is a good-looking non-starter...watching privileged kids getting a little wasted, playing pathetic pranks, spouting spurious drivel, harbouring their own deceitful hypocrisies...in truth, it wears a bit thin in next to no time.
The battle-ground was there, all prepped and ready - only there was no battle...the 'honor' slaying, when perpetrated by a heterosexual against a homosexual...one could - easily - get away with murder...Lucien Carr did get away with murder...but, was he a homo?!?!
This central issue is practically avoided...there's a same-sex kiss and there's the same-sex constant companion...surely, this is where the film should have focused rather than all those puerile pranks...
These supposed monoliths of contemporary literature have been dealt are rather shitty hand - surely, there was a little more to them than what's on show...!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
Cast & Characters
Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer;
Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg;
Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac;
Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker;
Ben Foster as William Burroughs;
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Naomi Ginsberg;
Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr;
David Cross as Louis Ginsberg;
Kyra Sedgwick as Marian Carr;
David Rasche as Dean