Writing, I guess
[Relative] clearly wants to be about complication, but just isn’t. Characters throughout the film describe the Frank family as dysfunctional. While individual characters are dysfunctional, that dysfunction is shown to stem from the family itself or how it functions
Crumb is a difficult documentary to know how to talk about. The formal qualities are all understated and the director’s presence so unfelt that any conversation about the film can really only veer to being about the subjects. Even in more fly-on-the-wall […]
The strongest parts of this film come from Djinns narrative. This is truly the heart of the film; its emotional epicenter.