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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043106781
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 08, 2007
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 13731
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Editorial Review:
Description:
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 unlock her deepest secrets, awaken her remarkable artistic genius, and launches Diane on her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of the best films I have seen in the past few years.
I rarely go to the movies nowadays: It would seem that Hollywood delivers only remakes of old movies or old stupid shows or cartoons. Hollywood writers seem to be doomed to adapt stuff that has already been written. What happened to creativity?
It is certainly not the case with this film. It caught my attention from the start. Set in the repressive 1950's, it tells the story of a frustrated photographer victim of her castrating parents. Her main activity in life is to assist her photographer ... Read More
Rating: - Quirky, but Beautiful
I just watched Fur on HBO, I sat there stone faced, I could not take my eyes off the TV screen. Usually, I flip around to other stations, but this movie took my breath away.
I read Diane (prounced Dee-Ann) Arbus' biography many years ago. Her photographs of "unusual people" have haunted me for years. She was a genius, but a tortured person. She committed suicide by slashing her wrists while she was in her bath tub. She bled to death, and her body was not discovered for several days.
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Rating: - An artist struggles to emerge
This movie is definitely not for everyone. The first time i saw it, i was taken back on how unique and interesting the story is and yet it got little advertising. This is an inspiring movie that i would think mostly artist's would appreciate. It shows the struggles of art through obstacles and diverse environments. Although, a little twisted and perverse, this movie teaches that to become yourself,you sometimes have to lose yourself.
Rating: - Beautifully Passionate Love Story
This is one of my favorite love stories. It is well acted by both Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. and the details that went into the design and feel of the movie transported you into her world. If you know Diane Arbus's work than of course you will know that the movie will be slightly twisted toward the unusual and feed off of your intrigue for the uncommon. Arbus's pictures always made me feel like you shouldn't be so intrigued by them but for some reason you could just stare at them all day and that is how the ... Read More
Rating:  - Yin & Yang
After reading the other reviews, it seems to me that people write to their tastes; some love Kidman, some don't, etc. Their established tastes, by and large, make up their enjoyment (or not) of anything be it film, music or literature.
So, that being said, my ten cents:
#1. I'd never heard of Diane Arbus before picking up this film.
#2. I picked it up for Robert Downey Jr. (Established Taste).
#3. Guess what? There are no words for how I feel about his performance that could ... Read More
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