Whets the appetite for a film about the real Diane Arbus

Michael-238

I enjoyed this film, but it made me wish someone would do a historically accurate film about Diane Arbus to go with this self-admitted fantasy.

I felt a strong relationship with this film and Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits - something I haven't noticed any critics remarking upon, so maybe it's a weaker correlation than I believe. In both cases a shy, repressed woman releases her wild inner self by an encounter with a colorful, bizarre, and maybe imaginary neighbor.

The film's striking visual style is complimented enormously by a standout score from Carter Burwell. Here he gets to take a much more active role than the usual minimalism he employs in the Coen brothers films for which he is famous.

score 8/10

Michael-238 16 March 2008

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