The pair behind “Secretary” has fashioned another slinky character study of an unapologetically kinky young woman. But the famous freak aficionado played by Nicole Kidman in “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” isn’t as likable, understandable or compelling as the fictional submissive played by Maggie Gyllenhaal in their last film.
As the title suggests, this time director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson imagine their own scenario of how the real-life mid-century photographer Diane (pronounced (Dee-ann) Arbus might have been sucked from her cushy life as a well-to-do New York City housewife into the netherworld of physically aberrant subjects who would become the centerpiece of her life’s work.
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