Kill your darlings (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: John Krokidas
	Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 20.01.2014, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: In the early 1940s, Alan Ginsberg is an English major in Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Alan 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.
Review: This stunning story tells a lot. About untold and told, existing and non-existing homosexuality within a group of friends. About the creative way of life that is possible in Columbia University by playing with the rules, with the people and with the Big Apple. About a way of taking a lot from life by experimenting without getting stuck in drugs.  This group bundled via poetry and experience spins around Daniel DeHaan, already seen in The place beyond the pines, where his acting was already excellent. The scenes with DeHaan are all great. In any feeling he can express it very strongly and transmit it to the viewer. Wow! The directing does not show anything special and this is why I do not give more points.
Rating: 7 /10