Surprising. Spellbinding. Sensual. Mesmerizing. I am totally and completely impressed and intrigued. A beautiful love story. A wonderful fantasy. Love and life come from the most unexpected places.

| Nov 7, 2019

Director Steven Shainberg's follow-up to his groundbreaking film "Secretary" (2002) is an anti-biopic that dares to read between the lines of its subject's artistic vision rather than replay the common knowledge events of photographer Diane Arbus' life.

| Original Score: B | Apr 24, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Nicole Kidman is superb as the woman who blooms and goes a trifle mad at the touch of this other world inhabited by Lionel, and Robert Downey Jnr is the perfect actor for the role.

| Sep 6, 2007

Una película diferente y para nada complaciente con el espectador, que permite aproximarse a una de las artistas más influyentes del siglo XX.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

If the filmmakers are telling us that Diane's artistic creativity was unleashed by the love of a good freak, then it's a shame. To turn a story so full of good intentions at the beginning into another movie about a woman who is liberated from the chains

| Apr 23, 2007

Depois do surpreendente Secretária, que brilhava por sua enganosa despretensão, Shainberg tropeça ao encantar-se mais com a própria ambição artística do que com as brilhantes realizações de sua suposta biografada.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2007

An interestingly designed but inescapably pointless film.

| Mar 16, 2007

Kidman and Downey Jr's moving performances more than make up for the film's daft script.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2007

Kidman delivers another standout performance, transparent and magnetic. Burrell is no match for Downey's hypnotic beast. The hairy romantic chemistry with Kidman is electric, the context inspired.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2007

While Steven Shainberg and his collaborators should be congratulated for eschewing the traditional biopic route, Fur is a noble experiment that goes awry. Sad to say but this is not a film for anyone wishing to learn about Diane Arbus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2007

Stylish, imaginative and beautifully directed, this is a slow-moving but utterly mesmerising drama with terrific performances from Kidman and Downey Jnr.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2007

These are themes that everyone can identify with, especially when they're expressed with such intelligence and artistry.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 16, 2007

Kidman wades in over her depth in this genuinely odd but disappointingly flat attempt to recast a biopic as a fairytale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2007

Certainly the film isn't without its flaws. Then again, perfection is in the eye of beholder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2007

Far-out touches and liberal application of metaphor are compensated for by intensity and two mesmerising performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2007

The idea of growth as metaphor truly runs wild in Fur, until the thicketry of meaning and subtext becomes more dense than meaningful, and your attention is stopped, finally, at the surface of Nicole Kidman's placid full moon of a face.

| Feb 9, 2007

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 8, 2007

"Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" points out in its title that the picture is mostly fictionalized, but in the opening prologue it states that Diane Arbus was one of America's most important artists. Why make that statement if you can't prove it

| Jan 3, 2007