| | | An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.
Features: DVD
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 launches Diane on her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
"...a revelatory, challenging and deeply affecting portrait...Kidman's most profoundly moving performance to date." Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune
"...as strange and oddly beautiful as one of Arbus' own photographs..." Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
"Kidman brings her character to life with a fey, moth-to-the-flame enthrallment that's both touching and fascinating." William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 10, 2006Steven Shainberg's movie is a biographical film about the troubled life of Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman), the groundbreaking and influential photographer who specialized in portraits of the bizarre and committed suicide in 1971.
| Features | HBO First Look: Fur | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Deleted Scenes With Audio Commentary By Director Steven Shainberg | | Feature Audio Commentary With Director Steven Shainberg | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus - DVD Review By: Daniel Solomon - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/12/2007 12:36 PM | | All the yammering that Fur does about opening up to our true selves and discovering the wonders of the bizarre reminds me of the guy at the art gallery who isn't there for the free booze. He finds the worst looking paintings and talks about them as though they will change the fabric of the universe. Then he mistakenly points to a fire alarm and calls it a "masterwork." I'm pretty sure Shainberg or novelist Bosworth were once like that, and the lifestyle inspired this narrative experiment. This movie is definitely art, both in idea and execution. But from where I'm sitting, it ain't nuthin' special....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 5/8/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 10678 | | UPC: 00794043106781 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Jane Alexander | | Nicole Kidman | | Robert Downey, Jr. | | Ty Burrell | | Amy Danger - Production Designer | | Bill Pope - Cinematographer | | Carter Burwell - Original Music By | | Edward R. Pressman - Executive Producer | | Erin Cressida Wilson - Screenplay | | Keiko Deguchi - Editor | | Kristina Boden - Editor | | Laura Bickford - Producer | | Nick Ralbovsky - Art Director | | Patricia Bosworth - Based On Book By | | Steven Shainberg - Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Box Office
"In one of her best performances, Kidman impressively depicts the intensely emotional journey of Diane's self-discovery..." 11/01/2006 p.114Sight and Sound
"FUR's dreamlike qualities reference everything from Jean-Pierre Jeunet's DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN to Spike Jonze's BEING JOHN MALKOVICH." 04/01/2007 p.62 FilmCritic.com 7 of 10
Diane Arbus made a name for herself by trying to make the normal look peculiar and vice versa. Many of her pictures detail "freaks" in very calm, classical poses and spaces. When Steven Shainberg got the notion to cook up a fictional story about how Arbus got her inspiration for her photographic portraits, this had to be on his mind. Somehow, this notion creates an inventive misfire...In its reach for wanton grandeur, Fur doesn't necessarily bore but rather confounds in its attempt to present a perverse life without really getting too strange. Arbus called art "a secret about a secret," and it's possible that Shainberg is purposefully holding us at arm's length to intrigue us. Fascination is a hard beast to wrangle and, at moments, Fur has it but it never enraptures the viewer into this willful world that Arbus existed in. It makes her peculiar world look extremely normal. - Chris Cabin
ReelViews 7 of 10
Fur uses the real-life name and some of the real-life background of photographer Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) as the launching point for an entirely fictional romance. The movie is open about its aims and doesn't try to hide the fact that this is not intended to be biographical in nature...Obviously, Shainberg has a fondness for offbeat romances. His breakout picture, Secretary, was a tender love story steeped in self-mutilation and B&D. For his encore, he has now made a movie about a slender woman who falls in love with a guy who could be related to Cousin It. As peculiar as this latest premise sounds, Shainberg brings it to the screen with a degree of sympathy. Fur isn't as emotionally effective as Secretary but, like the previous film, it can at least claim the virtue of trying something different. - James Berardinelli
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