Well i dont really know how to write it in words but FUR is one of the best films ive seen this year. I think Nicole is brilliant in it and really played Diane really well. Robert was also amazing in it. When i was watching it i could really see the emotion i the film. Although it was quite strange in some places it thought it was a brilliant way of showing Diane and Lionel. At teed it di bring a tear to my eye but i also thought what i good ending it was. To sum it up in one word it would be .. Undescribable in a very good way. Well done nicole yet another good film.

Thank you for the review .

Thanks for letting us know. Glad you enjoyed it

I still have not seen it and have not ordered the DVD either due to ban on me buying from the internet for a while!.

How about you skanky? I would love to know your opinion too.

Foxy, still haven't seen it, I just couldn't make the times it was shown at the cinema. Only 2ce a day at 2pm and 6pm. I should be seeing it in the next 2 weeks.

it comes out on dvd in May sometime for the US, so im ordering it on amazon.com soon!! i really want to watch it!

Finally, I saw Fur and enjoyed it quite immensely, infact, I have seen it 4 times .

I have to say I love what Steven Shainberg did with the movie, it's quite fluid, all about movement, the way he injected humour into various scenes was very charming and the portrayal of the "freaks" in this movie should be commended, they didn't stand out to be stared at. Like The Hours, I kind of forgot that the movie only covers a short period of her life as I watched it.

The handling of the relationships between the characters was portrayed in a very real way. It is great to watch a movie depicting the disintegration of a marriage without the expected cinematic histrionics and the beginning of another without the much expected "take off your clothes ASAP" headlights. Although with much angst, there was a realisation in the way Allan Arbus released Diane to become Diane Arbus, his wonderful toast at her birthday party just made my heart swell.

The performances are really to be commended, all were absolutely excellent and on point. The depiction of the relationship between Allan and Diane showed how utterly reliant Allan was on Diane. When she left his side, the look on his face when he was trying to arrange the models so he could take their pics was so sad. You see the realisation he came to that "Arbus Family Portraits" is not what it should be without Diane's input and how terrified he was. His attempt to match Lionel by hair was also quite humourous .

Diane and Lionel are just two peas in a pod. I absolutely appreciated how commanding Lionel was and how charmingly he disarmed Diane with his very inquisitive questions, he was so uncouth! I guess someone like Lionel can differentiate between someone looking at him in wonder and someone looking at him with perhaps repulsion and I think he saw wonder in Diane's eyes when he saw her looking at him through her window as he moved into the building. Diane is also no slouch, she was game to step into the unknown, scared of it? yes but still willing to explore it, her countenance simply changed as soon as she stepped into Lionel's world. The dull coloured clothes she wore became very colourful, she smiled a lot more and stood up to her mother who in the first scenes dominated her with just one quip.

The playfulness between Diane and Lionel, NK and RDJ made their coupling so easy, it was the portrayal of a great friendship.

FUR is quite an intricate gem, you simply can't pull it apart too much. Another thing I commend it for is portraying Arbus as someone who actually cultivated friendships with her subjects, that although her portraits may be gritty, brutal or stark, she simply didn't go snapping whatever she saw without respect or regard. We didn't really see Diane take a portrait of any of the "freaks", the portrait of Lionel that she eventually took wasn't as he would have been recognised but Diane became a part of their world and they had respect for her.

Thank you so much Skanky for that great review

I still have not seen it as of yet, but it is next on muy list to see!!

Thanks for that great review, Skanky. This is one film I very much want to see-not just because it's a Nicole film, but also because I'm interested in how Dianne Arbus, the photographer, is portrayed. Thankyou for giving me an insight into how the personal relationships are portrayed-as 'real.' Also, I wanted to know how her connections with her photographic subjects were depicted- not as 'freaks', as is sometimes claimed, but as the cultivation of personal friendships.
I think I'll have to purchase the dvd online, as it doesn't seem like it's ever going to be released in Australia. I'd hoped they might work out a way, while Nicole is here-but I seriously doubt it.

i bought "fur" and i really was stuck by the outstanding performances. it reminds very much a david lynch type of film. i hope it finds a larger audience due to the video release. excellent review, skanky!
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This is actually probably the only film of Nicole's that I didn't like

I love art house films, I love David Lynch and Lars Von Trier as well. I especially love experimental films but I strongly disliked this.... which left me frustratd because I really wanted to like it! To me it felt like the story had so much potential but it wasted screentime that could have focoussed more on Diane's work on trivial shots such as her walking down hallways and up and down stairs (way too many drawn out shots there) and doing trivial things

I did think that Nicole and Robert Downey Jr were fantastic in it though. I could not fault their performances.

I'm just being honest.... because I really wanted to love this film lol