Review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) by G H — 09 Feb 2010
Very strange, first off. Secondly, the story's slow and uneventful, and everything is strange, seemingly for the sake of being strange. While the love story is a little interesting, it's not out of its being well written, rather because its a story you have never ever seen before.
The characters feel like characters, not like real people, lending itself to the feel of a highly manufactured two-hour commitment. Although it does grow into itself after the first hour, it quickly fades into confusion and insensibility at the end.
With needlessly overt symbolism and forced ironies, weak allusions, and poor hindshadowing (that's the backwards-facing foreshadowing that does the same thing --introduce an idea without any explanation-- but long after you could've used it the first time) make this film utterly poor in every regard.
If you come in after it's started, you may think it's a horror movie. Don't make this mistake. This film is not a horror movie, but it is a horror show (think about that pun, you'll get it).
This review of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) was written by G H on 09 Feb 2010.
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus has generally received mixed reviews.
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