Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

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Stephen C @bob25009 Jul 12, 2026 The worldwide gross is $2,312,717.00. See more

Madam D @Madam1948 Feb 20, 2025 The film had very little to do with the actual life of famous photographer Diane Arbus. Nor did it make much sense. See more

Shioka O @RT54204327 Apr 10, 2024 Good watch for Nicole Kidman. Yes it's "imaginary", but went too far, I thought. Less about Arbus' art and insight. See more

andrei d @RT74856639 Jun 22, 2020 Kidman needs to be weirder See more

Jul 6, 2018 Biopics are not my favorite genre. For me to be interested the person that is the focus of the story needs to be unique, perhaps someone I’m already familiar with, and ideally they’ve done some fascinating things in their life. Strike one against Fur is that it focuses on Diane Arbus a photographer whose name I’ve never heard in my entire life. Strike two is the fact that it’s “An Imaginary Portrait” which means her life was so boring that they had to invent a false history for her in order to make it into a movie. Strike three came when I realized that the made up history was still mind-numbingly boring. I could not have cared less about this movie. I was distracted, doing other things, and still felt like I didn’t miss anything in the story. It is a typical bored housewife movie, where she finds a new and interesting man who she develops feelings for because her husband is too nice and normal. I found Diane Arbus unpleasant and frustrating throughout most of the film. The connection she forms with Lionel Sweeney comes out of nowhere and is treated like some twisted fairy tale. His behavior makes no sense unless he is somehow psychic, and his insane level of confidence doesn’t seem to fit someone who has lived life in that way. The acting was melodramatic to the point that it kept making me laugh when they were trying to be serious. There is nothing I liked in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. If I were to search for a positive it would be that I won a few levels of Candy Crush while I waited for it to end, and it was boring enough that it didn’t distract me from my game. I also got a good laugh out of the idea of what it would really look like if you shaved someone’s entire body for the first time in their life (all the nicks, cuts, and razor burn would be a site.) I wish I could have watched this movie at double speed so it would have ended an hour sooner, because it was a waste of my time. See more

Oct 18, 2016 Two stellar leads and some terrifically ambiant direction are undercut by a thematically indecisive screenplay that juggles marital life, perception, awakenings and prejudice without settling. See more

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