Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

2006

Action / Biography / Drama / Romance / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 109 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 16833 16.8K

photographer biography hair werewolf hypertrichosis freak

Please enable your VPΝ when downloading torrents

If you torrent without a VPΝ, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action!

Get Expert VPΝ

Plot summary

In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.

Director

Steven Shainberg Photo
Steven Shainberg

Top cast

Robert Downey Jr. Photo
Robert Downey Jr. as Lionel Sweeney
Nicole Kidman Photo
Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus
Elzbieta Czyzewska Photo
Elzbieta Czyzewska as Neighbor
Mayuko Photo
Mayuko as
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
1.09 GB
1280*688
English 2.0
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 1
2.25 GB
1904*1024
English 5.1
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Crazypiglady

I watched this as I'm a keen photographer

I watched this as I'm a keen photographer and hoped to learn more about Arbus despite the film being honestly marketed as mostly fiction (the other main character 'Lionel' and anything about the family other than their existence) based loosely on an unauthorised biography. I learned how to pronounce Diane but not a lot else. That doesn't make it a bad film just not very educational. It's a good idea for a film but doesn't quite hit the mark. Given the artistic license it affords itself it could have gone anywhere but it doesn't really. There are some interesting, quirky and funny bits in it but somehow it doesn't quite hold them together coherently. 6/10 (and one of those is simply for having a TLR Rolleiflex in it)
Reviewed by federicaboldrini1984 6 / 10

Roma Film Festival - Fur: Kidman meets Chewbacca

Being lucky enough to have a free pass for the press this morning I attended the press screening of this film at the Roma Film Festival, which opened today. I would like to share some thoughts. First of all, this is far from being a biographical account of the photographer Diane Arbus. The film, with shows not a single of her works, just covers the few key months in which Arbus discovered to be an artist, leaving her well-to-do environment. One day ante litteram desperate housewife Arbus, married with the mild mannered advertising photographer Allan, looking outside the window sees Lionel, their new neighbour: this is the beginning of the most unusual of love stories, around which the whole film revolves. Lionel, which is an entirely fictional character, suffers from ipertrichosis, a pathological condition which makes his body and his face completely covered with hair. Lionel helps Arbus to discover herself and introduce her to the world of the freaks, like himself is, which would be the subject of most of her work. The title of the film states it is an imaginary portrait of the artist. It's more like a wild fantasy loosely inspired to her figure. Kidman's performance is good, but not mind-blowing. Robert Downey Jr.'s is more interesting: with his face completely covered with hair he manage to create a rather intriguing character, acting just with his eyes and his beautiful voice. I must say that after the screening the press audience was pretty harsh with the film. It's not really a BAD movie, one can say that in its way it has also a kind of weird charm. Steven Shainberg's direction is creative and interesting. Still, the film has many very weak points. There are really A LOT of unintentionally funny things, first of all the striking resemblance between Robert Downey Jr.'s character and Star Wars hairy fellow Chewbacca. Two or there meant to be serious lines made the audience (and me) laugh out loud. A few scenes were nearly ridiculous. If you are a fan of Kidman or Downey Jr. you can give a chance to this film: don't expect a serious work about Diane Arbus, but rather a very strange dream, and maybe you'll enjoy it. 6/10
Reviewed by

Read more IMDb reviews

No comments yet

Be the first to leave a comment