Both recently released on DVD.
When you go out on a limb for a movie, sometimes you fall and hit every branch on the way down and sometimes you get rescued by Ashley Judd in a beat-up green pick-up. Fur and Come Early Morning have more in common than sounding like pornos. Both are about the awakening of a late 30s female as she struggles to find her place in the world.
In Fur, Nicole Kidman plays Diane Arbus, the wife of a photographer who is unsatisfied with her husband, two children, and swanky 1950s Manhattan lifestyle. She abandons it all for Robert Downey, Jr. who is covered head to toe with hair. His friends look like rejects from the late, great HBO series Carnivale. She then joins a nudist colony and takes pictures. Robert Downey, Jr. does his best as Teen Wolf 3, but I preferred both Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman in the first two. The movie contains the worst nudity in recent memory, much worse than an Alexander Payne film because it's just so persistent. Nicole Kidman's still got it, but she looked much better nude in Dead Calm, Billy Bathgate, Malice, Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Birthday Girl, Cold Mountain, Human Stain, and Birth. D-
Come Early Morning stars Ashley Judd as Lucy, a promiscuous woman in a small Southern town, near Little Rock, Arkansas. She is successful in her career as a contractor, but her 
interpersonal relationships are strained. She tries to connect with her father, played with expert subtlety by Scott Wilson. Their trips to church provide a rare thing in film: an honest portrayal of small town church life without any snide commentary or ridiculing of church-goers. Even rarer, the preacher has answers to Lucy's questions and the acceptance of her life - and her epiphany - are a direct result of his answers. Also, promiscuity isn't celebrated as it is in most mainstream movies, but portrayed as emotionally and physically harmful. Quite a shockingly impressive debut from writer/director Joey Lauren Adams, the squeaky voiced blond actress from Dazed and Confused and Chasing Amy. B
interpersonal relationships are strained. She tries to connect with her father, played with expert subtlety by Scott Wilson. Their trips to church provide a rare thing in film: an honest portrayal of small town church life without any snide commentary or ridiculing of church-goers. Even rarer, the preacher has answers to Lucy's questions and the acceptance of her life - and her epiphany - are a direct result of his answers. Also, promiscuity isn't celebrated as it is in most mainstream movies, but portrayed as emotionally and physically harmful. Quite a shockingly impressive debut from writer/director Joey Lauren Adams, the squeaky voiced blond actress from Dazed and Confused and Chasing Amy. B Personal note: My heartfelt apologies to CMH for yet another Sundance entry, but we all have our roles to play.
2 comments:
Impressive Kidman nudity list. I can't believe Joey Lauren Adams directed a movie.
that's ok doctor. someone has to support the indies.
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