It's about what it says in the title. The director is Steven Shainberg who also wrote and directed Secretary.
Shainberg has his very own impeccable way of conveying the strongest emotions and desires in this movie too with a little tint of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the book is also seen in the scene where Lionel reads to the children). There's a very ordinary wife and husband with two daughters. Diane finds a key. It's the key to Lionel's house. She puts on a blue dress. The stairs to Lionel's house are the hole Diane falls down only to find herself in the wonderland, the house itself, which looks like a theater, a place out of the ordinary reality. A note by the teapot, a small tea party on a big long table. The rabbit is there. Instead of drowning in her own tears Diane is in the bath with Lionel. There's a key again, opening a small door in Diane's vision. Black and white tiles with deceptive perspective. She eats a cookie handed to her by Lionel.
The movie makes you love (even fall for) a strange person with a strange character in a strange environment, it makes you see the beauty in things we see as unusual, abnormal or even grotesque.
While colors of this movie reminded me of 'The Fall'(2006), I loved the narrative, art direction and cinematography. I love how some symbols and signs are used throughout the movie like Allan having a beard towards the end of the movie and Lionel shaving.
I don't know anything about Diane Arbus but I loved this movie and I love Secretary.
9/10
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