Terry Zweigoff’s classic documentary is, ostensibly, a portrait of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. The film plunges into Crumb’s archive and life in an attempt to understand the artist’s misanthropic impulses. However, as the runtime unfurls, the audience witnesses not merely a cartoonist profile but an intensive hollowing-out of the self.\

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Crumb, Bleak Cinema’s first documentary, connects libidinal absurdity to material reality. Therein, viewers can find subtle yet palpable strands of malevolence, salaciousness, and circumvention in Crumb’s festering ink.

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