Product: Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Just Terrible
Nicole Kidman is a brilliant actress, who makes bold choices and doesn't play it safe. I think that's commendable, but the natural result is that for every brilliant movie she's in (The Hours, Moulin Rouge), there's one that's odd (Birth) or just bad (Bewitched).Fur is the worst of them all. Neither Kidman's luminous presence nor Robert Downey Jr.'s talent are enough to save this wreck. Whoever described it as a freak show was being generous.The idea of replacing Diane Arbus's fascinating real life with this "imaginary portrait" was a bad one, the screenplay is terrible, and the direction is even worse. I hope Kidman's next project will be better (at least it can't be worse) and more suited to her enormous talent.