A review by waclements7
Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds

4.0

Pondering. I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would. I’m wondering if maybe I missed the point. If writers at writers retreats are just jerks. With the earnest ones who keep plugged away at it while the players go after younger and younger women. Meanwhile, Tamara undergoes rhinoplasty, which undoes everyone around her (what would it have done for Cyrano, one wonders?) and draws men to her left and right, except for the one man who liked her the way she was to begin with. I saw a preview for the movie, and I’m wondering (I’m using that word a lot here) if it didn’t quite miss the point. It felt quite honest, and the graphic work was really lovely. I should read it again now that I’ve had time to think on it, because I think it’s a subtle work, and doesn’t leap at out you like a chest-bursting (or nose-bursting) alien. As a person who has had many issues with my own facial protuberance (my dad says I got his nose—I said it looks fine on _him_) I can relate to wondering how/if my life would be different. I think my _confidence_ would be different.