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09/14/07
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 33
Rotten:75
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Consensus: This portrait of a groundbreaking photographer lacks the daring of its subject.
Synopsis: Was Diane Arbus a brilliant innovator whose photographs captured the beauty in the most desperate of subjects? Or was she an exploiter of "freaks," shilling pictures of the deformed as a modern-day sideshow? Regardless of where one... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Ty Burrell, Jane Alexander
Director: Steven Shainberg
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Reviews for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Nicole Kidman is superb as the woman who blooms and goes a trifle mad at the touch of this other world inhabited by Lionel, and Robert Downey Jnr is the perfect actor for the role.
09/06/07
Una película diferente y para nada complaciente con el espectador, que permite aproximarse a una de las artistas más influyentes del siglo XX.
07/23/07
Unfortunately, the romanticism of Fur falls flat - a miscast Kidman trying to pretend Robert Downey Jr.'s foul-mouthed wolfman is dangerous and sexy. He is neither.
06/09/07
If the filmmakers are telling us that Diane's artistic creativity was unleashed by the love of a good freak, then it's a shame. To turn a story so full of good intentions at the beginning into another movie about a woman who is liberated from the chains
04/23/07
Shainberg manages the tricky task of showing us how the decidedly strange Arbus [saw] the world.
04/10/07
Depois do surpreendente Secretária, que brilhava por sua enganosa despretensão, Shainberg tropeça ao encantar-se mais com a própria ambição artística do que com as brilhantes realizações de sua suposta biografada.
03/16/07
Kidman and Downey Jr’s moving performances more than make up for the film’s daft script.
03/16/07
Kidman delivers another standout performance, transparent and magnetic. Burrell is no match for Downey’s hypnotic beast. The hairy romantic chemistry with Kidman is electric, the context inspired.
03/16/07
While Steven Shainberg and his collaborators should be congratulated for eschewing the traditional biopic route, Fur is a noble experiment that goes awry. Sad to say but this is not a film for anyone wishing to learn about Diane Arbus.
03/16/07
Stylish, imaginative and beautifully directed, this is a slow-moving but utterly mesmerising drama with terrific performances from Kidman and Downey Jnr.
03/16/07
These are themes that everyone can identify with, especially when they're expressed with such intelligence and artistry.
03/16/07
Kidman wades in over her depth in this genuinely odd but disappointingly flat attempt to recast a biopic as a fairytale.
03/16/07
Certainly the film isn't without its flaws. Then again, perfection is in the eye of beholder.
03/16/07
[The] film illuminates Arbus’ artistically brilliant, emotionally unstable life for no longer than the popping of a flash bulb.
03/14/07
Far-out touches and liberal application of metaphor are compensated for by intensity and two mesmerising performances.
03/13/07
The idea of growth as metaphor truly runs wild in Fur, until the thicketry of meaning and subtext becomes more dense than meaningful, and your attention is stopped, finally, at the surface of Nicole Kidman's placid full moon of a face.
02/09/07
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