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Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus DVD

R (Restricted) :: New Line Home Video :: Released: 2007-05-08


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Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Summary From the window of her immaculate New York apartment, lonely housewife Diane Arbus (Kidman) locks eyes with a masked figure on the street, a mysterious new neighbor (Downey, Jr.) whose penetrating gaze strips the veneer off her tidy reality. Mysteriously drawn to the man that intrigues her and determined to take his photograph, Diane ventures to his apartment and embarks on a journey that will unl

Turning Her Back On Her Wealthy, Established Family, Diane Arbus Falls In With Lionel Sweeney, An Enigmatic Mentor Who Introduces Arbus To The Marginalized People Who Help Her Become One Of The Most Revered Photographers Of The 20th Century.

Modeled loosely on Patricia Bosworth's 1984 biography, Fur opens with an independent, working Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman), free of the familial restraints that previously prevented her from making art. Flashing back three months, the viewer comes to learn that she has just left her husband and children to photographically investigate her fetishes through observing the extraordinary. When Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.), a wig-maker who suffers from hypertrichosis, or excessive hair growth, moves into Arbus's apartment building with his entourage and basement full of carnival props, Arbus is seduced by this opportunity to visually feast on freaks. The split with her conventional family becomes inevitable. Confusing love with her desire to make art, Arbus is overwhelmed when Lionel perishes, though its made clear to the viewer that this event provides Arbus necessary artistic impetus. Early scenes establishing Arbus's distaste for society parties, such as the fur fashion show her parents host, her boredom during her husband's dull, ridiculous commercial photo shoots, and her initial fascination with Lionel and his bizarre friends are strange and funny, successfully separating Arbus from the 'average' people surrounding her. But as Lionel and Arbus fall in love, pretentious whispering replaces their regular conversations, and overacting spoils Lionel's death scene, in which they both float dramatically through the ocean, followed by Arbus crying in the surf like a weenie. Arbus desperately huffing air from a life raft Lionel inflated before he died is completely cheesy. The tortured artist myth has, once again, been pushed too far. For a film that has such fine costuming, production design, and cinematography, it's a shame that Fur succumbs to that Hollywood convention of reducing the entire plot to a tragic love story. For a project with so much potential, and with so many Arbus fans eagerly awaiting this tribute to the great photographer, it's unfortunate that Fur falls flat, due mostly to injected sentimental melodrama in scenes where it has no place. If Arbus sought to expel saccharine emotionality from portrait photography, then it's odd that a biopic dedicated to her memory would be so unabashedly corny.--Trinie Dalton
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane... DVD Techincal Details Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander
Director: Steven Shainberg
Genre: none
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 122 mins
UPC: 794043106781
Binding: DVD
Studio: New Line Home Video
Release Date: 2007-05-08
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC

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