| (dir., Steven Shainberg, 2006)
120 min.; Rated R (for graphic nudity, some sexuality and language)
Friday, January 12 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, January 13 @ 5:30 pm
Official site: http://www.furmovie.com/
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| “Nicole Kidman is at her best in roles that require a certain quiet, desperate intensity. Witness her turns as a ghostly mother in The Others, as tortured writer Virginia Woolf in The Hours, and now in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. Her restrained but raw delivery and expressive, searching eyes lend a weight to parts that might, in the hands of lesser actors, come across as brooding, or worse, boring. In director Steven Shainberg's part-factual, part-fictional take on Arbus, the legendary and controversial photographer and pioneer of outsider art, Kidman again sinks her teeth into the life of a complex, deeply conflicted woman who is struggling to come to terms with her unusual view of the world, hemmed in by 1950s propriety and responsibility. The result is a revelatory, challenging and deeply affecting portrait, anchored by what may be Kidman's most profoundly moving performance to date. ...“
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