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Fur
Not exactly a conventional biopicture, the film is billed as an "Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus," based on her motto that, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” The film is inspired by Patricia Bosworth's fascinating book, "Diane Arbus: A Biography."
Nicole Kidman stars as 1960s photographer Diane Arbus, who tragically took her own life at the zenith of her career. Robert Downey Jr. stars opposite her in a strikingly offbeat role as her mentor and lover in a film written and directed by Steve Shainberg, who made the 2002 charming sexual fable "Secretary."
"Fur" promises to be one of the most unusual and unorthodox portraits of a modern artist, a kind of hallucinatory exploration of the awakening of a creative genius, by using Arbus’s startling, often disturbing photography as a point of departure for an “imaginary portrait” of her life. Ripe with passion and sexuality, it's the story of a complex and problematic woman- artist in search of herself.
The controversial photographer of outcasts-—circus performers, burlesque queens, dwarves and freaks—-began her life as the privileged daughter of a wealthy New York Furrier. Married young (too young?) to Allan Arbus, a cool, rational man five years her senior, Diane is a woman searching for a more meaningful existence. However, what should feel like a success in 1950s America-—good responsible husband and children, and middle-class respectability—echoes coldly within her.
Things change, when she meets the mysterious, almost inaccessible Lionel (Downey, Jr.), a man who lives in shadows in the apartment above the Arbuses. Under the pretext of photographing him, Diane makes what will be a spiritual journey. Her meeting with Lionel is shocking; he is by all accounts a freak, suffering from a rare disease that covers his entire body with silky brown hair, human fur. Diane is terrified, but her fear arouses her and even intoxicates her, and she finds herself inexplicably drawn to Lionel.
Oscar Record and Prospects
Kidman, who was nominated for "Moulin Rouge" and won the 2002 Best Actress for playing another troubled artist who committed suicide, Virginia Woolf in "The Hours," may receive her third nomination for this picture.
Roebrt Downey Jr (Oscar-nominated for "Chaplin")
may garner a Supporting Actor nomination for his eccentric role.
Special effects make-up is by three time Oscar-winner Stan Winston (Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Aliens).
Not exactly a conventional biopicture, the film is billed as an "Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus," based on her motto that, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” The film is inspired by Patricia Bosworth's fascinating book, "Diane Arbus: A Biography."
Nicole Kidman stars as 1960s photographer Diane Arbus, who tragically took her own life at the zenith of her career. Robert Downey Jr. stars opposite her in a strikingly offbeat role as her mentor and lover in a film written and directed by Steve Shainberg, who made the 2002 charming sexual fable "Secretary."
"Fur" promises to be one of the most unusual and unorthodox portraits of a modern artist, a kind of hallucinatory exploration of the awakening of a creative genius, by using Arbus’s startling, often disturbing photography as a point of departure for an “imaginary portrait” of her life. Ripe with passion and sexuality, it's the story of a complex and problematic woman- artist in search of herself.
The controversial photographer of outcasts-—circus performers, burlesque queens, dwarves and freaks—-began her life as the privileged daughter of a wealthy New York Furrier. Married young (too young?) to Allan Arbus, a cool, rational man five years her senior, Diane is a woman searching for a more meaningful existence. However, what should feel like a success in 1950s America-—good responsible husband and children, and middle-class respectability—echoes coldly within her.
Things change, when she meets the mysterious, almost inaccessible Lionel (Downey, Jr.), a man who lives in shadows in the apartment above the Arbuses. Under the pretext of photographing him, Diane makes what will be a spiritual journey. Her meeting with Lionel is shocking; he is by all accounts a freak, suffering from a rare disease that covers his entire body with silky brown hair, human fur. Diane is terrified, but her fear arouses her and even intoxicates her, and she finds herself inexplicably drawn to Lionel.
Oscar Record and Prospects
Kidman, who was nominated for "Moulin Rouge" and won the 2002 Best Actress for playing another troubled artist who committed suicide, Virginia Woolf in "The Hours," may receive her third nomination for this picture.
Roebrt Downey Jr (Oscar-nominated for "Chaplin")
may garner a Supporting Actor nomination for his eccentric role.
Special effects make-up is by three time Oscar-winner Stan Winston (Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Aliens).
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thanks for the info. its great. 
I peeked at the story and tried not to read the story too much having seen almost all of Cold Mountain and a few other films before I actually saw the film! However I am sure the others will want to know it line by line before the film is released. And I am sure I will have to know it before the film is released in Australia as everyone in the US will talk about it after it is released there. 
I can't wait 2 c da film 
~Viviana~