If you loved Petals on the Wind, try Kill Your Darlings

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Petals on the Wind

2014 · dir. Karen Moncrieff

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Theyboth carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Romance / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Petals on the Wind, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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1944 New York City winter streets empty except for a typewriter clacking. A murder unites three young writers: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, their lives entwined in chaos. Krokidas frames the Beat Generation's origins with subtle intensity.

If you loved Petals on the Wind, try Kill Your Darlings

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If you loved Petals on the Wind, try Kill Your Darlings

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What they share

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