The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg's poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the "freedom" that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.
The Beat Hotel has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Beat Hotel was released in 2012 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 7 reviews, giving The Beat Hotel (2012) an average rating of 53%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 45%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Beat Hotel a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 53%, The Beat Hotel is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2012, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2012 with similar scores include films like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Deadfall and Butter.
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