Product: Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Rating: 1.0
How about no stars?
This is the worst film I ever tried to watch. I couldn't make it past the first half hour. Most of that half hour was spent on closeups of Kidman's face fixed in the one expression she uses to indicate any kind of emotion: lips slightly parted, brows drawn together, signifying worry? angst? gas?The script doesn't help us find out. It tries to be artsy and show Arbus' fascination with the freaks of the world. I know this from the description on the DVD case but I'd never get a clue from the movie itself. It oozes S L O W L Y along without much dialog or exposition. For instance, one scene has Kidman climbing a staircase for a full 4 minutes (Yes, I timed it). There's no dialog or visual exposition, just closeups of the Single Kidman Expression indicating something significant is happening to her character, and shots of her ascending the staircase.There are also shots of freaks intended to be as creepy as possible. In the half hour I survived, there were several shots of an armless woman dusting and drinking tea with her feet, and Kidman's werewolf-like neighbor. These were included without any value to the story or character. So the movie's not just agonizingly boring, it will have you going 'EEEYYEWWWW' a lot, too.As you can probably tell, I'm not a great Kidman fan. I rented this movie because of the rest of the cast. I figured how wrong can you go with Jane Alexander and Robert Downey Jr.? And I found out: You can go this wrong.