Building on Blume’s genial presence, cinematographers Jenni Morello and Emily Topper and composer Lauren Culjack (Kotomi) bring a vibrant and playful energy to the documentary.īlume’s voice is the most prominent in the film, but an insightful chorus of friends, family, and fans soon joins her.

Facing the camera head-on, Blume is a vulnerable yet powerful storyteller, unafraid to talk about the more painful moments in her story, like her father’s sudden death and her romantic setbacks, just as much as she’s eager to share about the development behind some of her books. Pardo and Wolchok expertly use archival footage, like old ads of the era and newsreels, to transport viewers to various times in Judy Blume’s life, which is then illustrated by a treasure trove of family photos and home movies. It’s also about the social changes in this country, the gender barriers Blume broke through with her books, her struggle to be taken seriously as a professional when others sneered at her kid-friendly literature, and her ongoing fight against conservative efforts to ban books from young readers.īlume guides her audience through her own story with a gentle narration, recalling anecdotes both funny and tragic, memories of regret and joy, and reading excerpts from her books with a warm enthusiasm that brings these characters and moments to life-often with visual help from animator Angelique Georges and collage artists Andrew Griffin and Martin O'Neill. But “Judy Blume Forever” is more than just about the writer herself. Then, a publisher finally gave her a chance, and in a few years, her writing career bloomed. Years later, after settling into her role as a young housewife, she began to write bedtime stories for her two children.

Before Judy Blume was a household name, she was a nervous child growing up in the shadows of a world war.

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