by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Frie · DVD · EAN 8437010734151
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«Howl: La voz de una generación» is the film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Frie (2010), starring James Franco, Jon Hamm and David Strathairn, on DVD.
The film recreates the obscenity trial of the poem «Howl» in San Francisco in 1957. It combines the case hearings, with James Franco as Ginsberg, Jon Hamm as his lawyer and David Strathairn as prosecutor, with scenes of the poet's creative process and an animation that gives shape to the poem, in the context of the birth of the counterculture and the Beat generation.
Running time: 78 min. DVD PAL edition, region 2, not recommended for under 12s.
A proposal for those interested in the Beat generation, biographical cinema and recreations of court proceedings on censorship.
