It can be done without excessive for a film about the excess of extravagance? It seems so, and the result is formally compact and solid, but not drag.
Diane Arbus is a rich wife, renowned photographer and patient husband, lover and a bit 'blind. He does not realize because of the radical intolerance of wife for the conventions, thinking that her ideas of new spaces are to be reported to the upper middle class lady from harmless hobbies. And as Diane spends her nights wandering around the city and the building, he slept. Just on the top floor of his house Diane meets Lionel, a freak if I ever saw one , covered with hair from head to toe for a strange form of hypertrichosis, which arouses his curiosity first, his kindness and his love then. Together, he and his inevitable smock and she with Donald and the camera strap, exploring the various quirks of nature and the effect that they were "different" produce the so-called normal individuals, to fall in love.
Nicole Kidman, as I got to write, is a genius of acting that has crippled his talent in favor of a face so expressive as to be almost plasticky, Robert J. Downey is a good actor and a good choice to represent an excess, a category into which it is at home with ease.
Shainberg, the director, had showed more courage with the Secretary, the film very disturbing. I honestly do not know if I prefer masochist perversions of the secretary or the strangeness of Diane Arbus. The film is not bad, but not a masterpiece.
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