FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS (2006)

STEVEN SHAINBERG

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Cast

NICOLE KIDMAN ROBERT DOWNEY JR TY BURRELL CARTER BURWELL

Plot

From the window of her New York apartment beautiful bored housewife Diane spots her beast, a mysterious masked man, and is transfixed. This it will turn out is Diane Arbus' epiphany, a portal that will take her on a journey that unleashes not just her soul but her remarkable gift as a photographer. Hirsute Wolf Man' Lionel, part Elephant Man, part seductive gentleman, takes Diane into his world of outsiders and gradually wins her heart before turning into a handsome prince and disappearing in a puff of smoke. An unusual, moving and beautifully lit film, finely performed, and directed by Steven Shainberg, responsible for the understated joy that is The Secretary'.