Product: Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Rating: 5.0
A moving and poetic tribute to an artist ahead of her time
I just finished watching this movie. It is so rich and textural, emotional and brilliant. The scenes move effortlessly and create vivid portraits of the characters without relying on many words. I've never seen a movie this graceful in its dramatic economy. It's the first movie that's gave me a good cry in a long time. It's inconceivable to me that when it was first proposed, a Diane Arbus catalogue was turned down by major publishing houses. According to Wikipedia, eventually it was picked up and produced and the Aperture monograph has since been reprinted 12 times, selling more than 100,000 copies. Diane Arbus was clearly a woman who saw the carnival and beauty of life. The movie masterfully depicts the differences between people and is a celebration of her intuition, sensuality, and vulnerability, and thus a celebration of those things in all of us.Kelly Jamesonwww.DeadOnNovel.com