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Miss Potter (2006)
Film first, book second
Brilliant family films are rare so this is very welcome.
See it before reading the superb biography "Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature" by Linda Lear to 'correct' the inaccuracies (some call it artistic license) in the film.
Renee Zellweger consummately portrays Ms Potter very convincingly. No sound recording exist of Ms Potter, so we don't know what she sounded like. The values of the late Victorian, early Edwardian time, are captured too.
Nicely paced and interesting incidental music and one soon get used to the animation - thankfully it's not as intrusive as the animation in Bed-knobs and Broomsticks.
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Next time a true portrayal?
I would be delighted if the Arbus estate, after having seen this film, commission a film called "The True Life of Diane Arbus" with an ending in the same vein as the film portrait of Sylvia Plath.
My feeling, and it is only that, Ms Arbus was never timid in her photography of people. Nor were the people on the fringe of society organised in the way the film suggests they were.
If you like lingering shots of Ms Kidman and enjoy bubblegum for the eyes then do go and see it. If, on the other hand, and that was my motive for going to see the film, you wish to learn more about a talented photographer of worth, then your cinema ticket price might be better spent on a book about Diane Arbus.