Product: Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Bark! Bark!
As a professional photographer and one who wants to believe he appreciates "thinking" movies, I had hoped this might be a better-than-average film. I understood going in that this was probably 50/50 reality-fantasy, and that was okay. I am a fan of MD,Jr. (4/5) and I can tolerate Nicole Kidman's (2/5) acting. However, even they couldn't save this movie from a painful, and unnecessarily-slow death. (Hint. Hint.) This wasn't an especially compelling story. Nor did it inspire on any level - the cinematography is ho-hum, there were virtually no references to Arbus' work (which was supposedly ground-breaking), and the main characters were nothing more than mid-20th-century, self-indulgent, self-centered, self-destructive adherents to Existentialism (which, like Post-Modernism, necessarily breeds that kind of person). The real dwarfs in this story were Arbus and Lionel. Is that what the writer and director wanted us to see? However, all-in-all, this movie is a real dog...and not good FUR much at all.