Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Directed by Steven Shainberg
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.
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What critics compared Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus to
It’s taken ten years, but Secretary director Steven Shainberg has finally followed-up Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.
A decade after the somewhat unwarranted critical drubbing of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), Steven Shainberg breaks the silence with his first bona fide genre effort to date, Rupture.
The average viewer looking for a horror movie to pass the time will be entertained by the film’s freakishness and FX, but more esoteric audiences, especially those familiar with Shainberg’s Secretary and his equally arch Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, will thrill to what is in essence a feminist parable about a woman confronting her fears and using them to become empowered.
The script, by two guys who gave us “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” and “Secretary” and most tellingly, “Hard Candy,” between them, has a lot of first-time screenwriter clumsiness.
One has to give some credit to Shainberg, who previously made Secretary and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus .
The project, an Americanized reinvisioning of 2003's French-language "Nathalie," is molded into its own entity via Atom Egoyan's (1999's " Felicia's Journey ") assured filmmaking prowess and Erin Cressida Wilson's (2006's "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus") undernourished but fascinating screenplay adaptation.
Director Atom Egoyan usually creates his own extraordinary screenplays; here, though, he has adapted a 2003 movie called "Nathalie...," by French director Anne Fontaine, and delegated the scripting to Erin Cressida Wilson, the author of such enterprisingly strange films as "Secretary" and "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus."
In "Chloe," which Egoyan directed from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson ("Secretary," "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus"), Julianne Moore plays a Toronto gynecologist named Catherine who suspects her husband, David (Liam Neeson), is having an affair.
The script is by Erin Cressida Wilson, whose affinity for kink has been on full display in such films as Secretary and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.