Should you watch Crumb?
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Crumb
Documentary · 1995
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.
The sides of Crumb
- The cartoonist Robert Crumb at home and on the street
- His two troubled brothers
- Underground comics from the sixties
Crumb is good for you if…
- you like a portrait of an artist that doesn't look away from his obsessions.
- you can laugh at a family this strange and this sad.
- you're drawn to the odd corners of sixties counterculture.
Crumb is bad for you if…
- you'd rather not see Crumb's sexual drawings up close.
- you can't take mental illness and a family falling apart on screen.
About: art · brothers · obsession · the family
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