![]() ![]() It’s sweet, for starters- a contrast to the content that flies out of Crumb’s own mind. It’s no wonder Crumb hates the film.īut Confessions is a whole different thing. As such, it’s a direct competitor to Terry Zwigoff’s much more famous Crumb, which was made several years later and focuses much more on Crumb’s dysfunctional family with a voyeuristic eye- it’s no wonder that this Sundance hit was embraced by America as a “take a look at the freaks” show. That’s probably because Crumb himself wrote it and remained heavily involved with the production, to the point where he actually hand-lettered the credits. The BBC Arena documentary, The Confessions of Robert Crumb, is less a documentary about his life (though it does cover that) and more a filmic extension of Crumb’s artistic work. No one draws like Crumb, no one writes like Crumb, no one thinks like Crumb. His comics explore the twisted inner psyche of the human animal with razor-sharp honesty and deep insight- all mixed with an incredible visual style which is instantly recognizable and impossible to imitate. What role does Robert Crumb play in a 21st Century, post-#METOO America? On the surface, the answer is “not much”- his openly misogynistic hostility towards women, his Sambo-influenced depictions of African Americans… it’s hard to imagine any self-respecting Millennial making it through a single of comics without going into convulsions.Īnd yet, Crumb is arguably the most important artist America has produced in the last 100 years. ![]()
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