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Henry Darger
Himself
Larry Pine
Henry Darger (Voice)
Dakota Fanning
Narrator/Vivian Girls (Voice)
Frier McCollister
Voice
Wally Wingert
Voice
Mary O'Donnell
Herself (Neighbor)
Kiyoko Lerner
Herself (Landlady)
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A review by CRCulver
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Written by CRCulver on Fri Sep 14 2018
This is a 2004 documentary film by Jessica Yu introducing the life and work of Henry Darger. A major figure of "outsider art", Darger's work was only discovered after his death when his landlords found thousands of pages of text and paintings in his room. Through his long life, he was known to his few friends and associates only as a janitor in a local hospital. Secretly, he wrote a massive manuscript chronicling the rebellion of girl slaves in a fantasy world, painted with watercolors of the heroines and battles.
Yu has chosen three main narrators for the documentary. A little girl (Dakota ...
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Keywords
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