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Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 19 Nov 2006

a kinky fairy tale that uses a strange love affair as a metaphor for the artistic urge…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 16 Nov 2006

Of all the what-were-they-thinking movies of 2006 -- and there are quite a few -- Fur rises to the top of the list…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 16 Nov 2006

Kidman is self-destructive as she puts herself in these movies with awkward scenes. For Fur, she has to shave Sasquatch…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Nov 2006

What we basically have here in Shainberg exposing himself on screen as a wannabe auteur trying to sum up Arbus' life through a complete fantasy…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Matt Pais (1,519) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 16 Nov 2006

Just because a movie isn't a biography doesn't mean it shouldn't give us enough info to understand why the real person was chosen as the subject…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Nov 2006

In making her biography understandable, if imaginary, it also makes [Arbus's] work-so thrillingly strange-a bit too familiar…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Diana Saenger (322) for ReviewExpress.com (294) on 13 Nov 2006

Although the Beauty and the Beast theme works in many movies, Fur lacks anything interesting about its sets, locations, music or costumes and…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Nov 2006

You can't help but wish that someone like Todd Solondz or David Lynch had gotten the job instead…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 10 Nov 2006

Fur barely scratches the proverbial surface of its complex subject…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Kurt Loder (858) for MTV (492) on 10 Nov 2006

That the picture collapses into near-total absurdity doesn't diminish the daring of its concept, although it certainly calls into question…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Marcy Dermansky (134) for About.com (1,470) on 10 Nov 2006

Academy Award winner Kidman is a marvelous actress, but her decision to play Arbus as a painfully shy, wavering waif diminishes her believability…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 10 Nov 2006

An alluring psychodrama about Diane Arbus that celebrates freaks, the start of something completely different, and the liberation that comes…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 09 Nov 2006

Kidman guides the audience through this saga of self-discovery with pliable reserve and a communicative face…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 09 Nov 2006

Arbus was surely a complex personality and should have been given credit for it. Here, she's practically presented as a cipher…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Matt Stevens (135) for E! Online (838) on 09 Nov 2006

This Alice in Wonderland-esque fable, tracking her theoretical evolution from repressed wallflower to visionary artist, doesn't go deep enough…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 09 Nov 2006

As much a spiritual sequel to Secretary as an Alice in Wonderland twist on Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Richard Schickel (546) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 09 Nov 2006

If so blatant a fiction is placed in a co-starring role into an account of a real life what can you usefully take away from the movie…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 09 Nov 2006

Freighted with a risible air of pretension and gloom…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 09 Nov 2006

Doesn't necessarily bore but rather confounds…

Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

By David Germain (226) for Associated Press (1,685) on 08 Nov 2006

Is it more interesting and entertaining than a straightforward biopic of Arbus would have been? Maybe. Is it more illuminating? Probably not…

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