When a mysterious, extremely hirsute man moves into the same apartment building that houses a prim, repressed 50s-era housewife, their relationship forces the man toward personal acceptance, and propels the woman to artistic self-realization. But this is no ordinary story of the escape from repression: it is the story of Diane Arbus, whose beautiful photographs of society's freaks, nudists, and forgotten have haunted viewers for decades. And this is no ordinary biopic, billed as "a tribute to Diane: a film that invents characters and situations that reach beyond reality to express what might have been Arbus' inner experience on her extraordinary path" by the filmmakers. Nicole Kidman plays Arbus as a tightly wound coil waiting to explode beyond her high society life; Robert Downey, Jr. is the Beast (almost literally, in a homage to Cocteau's classic) imagined by the film who offers her salvation. "Purists will howl at the liberties Shainberg has taken with the facts, but there's a bravery to Fur, an uncompromising commitment to its narrow focus of one woman's creative birth that rhymes with Arbus's own artistic courage." (Washington Post) More at furmovie.com
2006, color, 2 hours 2 minutes, USA