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Synopsis

Following his breakthrough feature, SECRETARY, director Steven Shainberg creates a ravishing imaginary portrait of the visionary artist Diane Arbus in his new film, FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS. Much as an actual Arbus photo transports us into strange and unfamiliar worlds, FUR travels through the looking glass to explore the transformation of a shy woman into a powerfully original artist. Oscar winner Nicole Kidman stars as "Diane Arbus," a devoted wife and mother whose innate talents and dark obsessions are profoundly at odds with the conventional life she leads in 1958 New York. Oscar-nominee Robert Downey Jr. co-stars as Lionel, an enigmatic new neighbor who launches Diane on her journey to becoming the artist she is meant to be.

Film Information

• Genre: Drama
• Director: Steven Shainberg
• Written By: Erin Cressida Wilson
• Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., and Ty Burrell
• Running Time: 122 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Much of the film is as strange and oddly beautiful as one of Arbus' own photographs, bold in its attempt to find new ways of cracking the biopic chestnut and sensitive in its portrayal of a 1950s woman who, like so many of her contemporaries, finds herself imprisoned in a"

   - Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

"The result is a revelatory, challenging and deeply affecting portrait, anchored by what may be Kidman's most profoundly moving performance to date."

   - Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune

"Kidman brings her character to life with a fey, moth-to-the-flame enthrallment that's both touching and fascinating."

   - William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"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."

   - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

"Yet whenever you get too irritated at Fur's pretensions, the remarkable acting of its two stars pulls you back in and keeps you watching."

   - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Showtimes

• Wednesday, December 6th
  7:00 pm
• Thursday, December 7th
  9:15 pm
• Friday, December 8th
  9:15 pm
• Saturday, December 9th
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Sunday, December 10th
  4:30 pm
• Monday, December 11th
  9:15 pm
• Tuesday, December 12th
  7:00 pm