Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
United States
2006
122 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
From the window of her immaculate New York apartment, lonely housewife Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) locks eyes with a masked figure on the street – a mysterious new neighbor (Robert 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 launch her on a path to becoming the artist she is meant to be. —New Line Cinema
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Steven Shainberg
Steven Shainberg (born 5 February 1963) is an American film director and producer. He is the nephew of author Lawrence Shainberg. Both are part of the Shainberg family of Memphis, Tennessee, founder of the Shainberg’s chain of stores, which is now part of Dollar General.
Shainberg received his BA from Yale University in English Literature and East Asian studies. After graduation, he worked as a location manager, assistant director, production coordinator, and assistant editor on a number of films, commercials, and rock videos. He also worked as an independent producer developing adaptations of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent and Henry James’ The Americans. At the American Film Institute, he directed and wrote four short films including The Prom starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andras Jones and J. T. Walsh. The Prom won the Grand Prize at the Houston International Film Festival, the Critics’ Award at the Breckenridge Film Festival, and the Silver Medal for Drama at the New York… read more
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Doctor Lemonglow
15Feb12
Arbus claimed that art was "a secret about a secret." This picture makes a fetish of fetishes. The kinkiest conceit leaves Arbus' curious gaze secondary to Sweeney's love-struck study of Arbus, who thinks she's the documentarian. Sweeney spills the beans about their arrangement. Lovingly observing her fascination with his crowd of fellow side-show types, he tells her: "All my life I've been waiting for a real freak."
Charles Deckert
7Apr11
Feels too much like they tried to make a cookie cutter, Beauty and the Beast story out of Arbus' life and work. Robert Downey Jr. was interesting until he took off his mask only to reveal...another.
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REVIEW of FUR: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Beauty, they say, is only skin deep. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. And if you were able to organize them for—let’s say—a group portrait, “they” would undoubtedly all wear furs and masks
REVIEW of FUR: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Beauty, they say, is only skin deep. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. And if you were able to organize them for—let’s say—a group portrait, “they” would undoubtedly all wear furs and masks
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By DDDUDE on May 13, 2010
Nos encontramos regidos por este infame mundo de apariencias , que me pondre m , con quien ire , la mas hermosa , y no se que merg mas .
Ella nos encuentra con su prototipo de belleza , esos infames… read review
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