The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

There's little here for those who know the story.

[Aronson] presents a moving and gentle portrait, combining interviews with friends, peers, family members, Ginsberg himself, home movies and photographs (many of them taken by Ginsberg) into a seamless whole.

As a first go at a film bio, this documentary suffices. But it might have been better had it not carried such an official stamp.

Commentators who couldn't take flower power or Buddhist chants or even poetry seriously were doomed to underestimate (Ginsberg's) resolve time and again.