Kill Your Darlings

2013 · 103 min · EN · NR · 7.0 (1,440 votes)

Dir. John Krokidas · Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross · Music Nico Muhly

“A true story of obsession and murder.”

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A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

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Immerse yourself in a heady, intoxicating atmosphere where intellectual fervor clashes with simmering desires and moral ambiguities. It ’s a brooding, melancholic journey through a pivotal cultural moment, steeped in dark academia and the thrill of artistic rebellion. The film pulsates with a quiet, unsettling intensity.

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