Crumb is an entry within the sub genre of the genre of documentaries which is the fringe biography. This one being about fittingly fringe underground comic book artist R. Crumb. As with any proper fringe biography it exposes its subject strange world and often makes it ground by merely giving the man a voice piece past his work. The film succeeds in terms of that type of fascination no matter how bizarre certain elements of Crumb's frame of mind will be. What it also succeeds with though is expanding this exposure a bit in terms of the specific world around Crumb including his family, specifically his brother who is his own tapestry of something else. It's a film that creates a real investigation within the unique sort of madness associated with a most specific fringe, however in a way that never feels too cloying or exploitative.
5/5
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