I think Nicole Kidman is the most sensual actress working today. This isn’t just because of her great looks, but because of the way she exudes her emotions. So when I had the opportunity to watch “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” with Kidman playing the famed photographer, I was intrigued.
Diane Arbus photographed the fringes of society. Some of her portraits were of people who had previously lived and worked in the “freak” shows the traveled throughout the United States during the 1960s and early 1970s. Other subjects were the homeless and others who didn’t fit into mainstream America.
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In this imaginative portrait Arbus meets a man who has the genetic condition of growing extreme hair. I remember seeing references to “Jo Jo the Dogfaced Boy” when I was a kid. It is that condition. Except the character is Lionel Sweeney played masterfully by Robert Downey Jr. In the file Arbus finds herself exploring a side of her she had not known before.
