Our own Chris Bumbray wasn’t particularly taken with the film when he saw it at Sundance earlier this year (word-of-mouth has been pretty mixed), but perhaps the trailer below will entice otherwise?
HOWL opens September 24th.
Synopsis: 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.