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5 October 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
A True Adventure More Erotic Than Any Fantasy
Plot:
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and his wife June. Intrigued by them both...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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"Jules et Jim?"
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Fred Ward | ... | Henry Miller |
 | Uma Thurman | ... | June Miller |
 | Maria de Medeiros | ... | Anaïs Nin |
| Richard E. Grant | ... | Hugo Guiler |
 | Kevin Spacey | ... | Richard Osborn |
| Jean-Philippe Écoffey | ... | Eduardo Sanchez (as Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) |
| Bruce Myers | ... | Jack |
| Juan Luis Buñuel | ... | Publisher / editor (as Jean-Luis Bunuel) |
 | Féodor Atkine | ... | Paco Miralles |
| Sylvie Huguel | ... | Emilia |
| Artus de Penguern | ... | Brassaï |
| Pierre Étaix | ... | Henry's friend no. 1 |
| Pierre Edernac | ... | Henry's friend no.2 - magician |
| Gaëtan Bloom | ... | Henry's friend no.3 |
| Alexandre De Gall | ... | Henry's friend no. 4 - clown |
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136 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 |
Netherlands:16 |
Singapore:R21 (cut) |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:R |
Chile:14 (DVD rating) |
Chile:18 (original rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/18 |
South Korea:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:NC-17
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Henry Miller:
Hell of a place you got here, Hugo. Peaceful. Been here long?
Hugo Guiler: Just since the crash.
Henry Miller: Since the crash? How did you live before?
Hugo Guiler: We lived well. This is Henry Miller, the American writer Osborn is putting up. My wife, Anais Nin.
Henry Miller: How are you, Anis?
Hugo Guiler: Eduardo Sanchez, Anais' cousin. Anais, you should read Henry's stuff.
Richard Osborn: For my money, he's got it over D.H. Lawrence.
AnaÔs Nin: I'd love to read your writing.
Richard Osborn: He hasn't been published yet.
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Hugo Guiler: Just since the crash.
Henry Miller: Since the crash? How did you live before?
Hugo Guiler: We lived well. This is Henry Miller, the American writer Osborn is putting up. My wife, Anais Nin.
Henry Miller: How are you, Anis?
Hugo Guiler: Eduardo Sanchez, Anais' cousin. Anais, you should read Henry's stuff.
Richard Osborn: For my money, he's got it over D.H. Lawrence.
AnaÔs Nin: I'd love to read your writing.
Richard Osborn: He hasn't been published yet.
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Featured in Indie Sex: Censored (2007) (TV)
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Gnossienne No. 3
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"Henry & June" follows the love triangle of Henry, June, and Anais. The catch is they are all having sex with each other. Not threesomes, but they all get around to it. Anais, like a good wife also allows her husband, Hugo to have sex with her. Such a nice girl.
This is supposed to be a biopic about how Anais helped bring out the talent in Henry Miller's writings and how these three people all had a deep love for each other and blah, blah, blah.
I think "Henry & June" was trying to be an American version of "Jules et Jim." With it's very causal treatment of sex and affairs. But this movie fails to capture any depth in it's characters at all.
Henry and June just come across as horny people and Anais seems to be very confused about love. Hugo is just a moron running around trying to get Anais to stop putting other men's anatomy into her.
Kaufman doesn't sink into Henry's artistic mind or even try to understand who these characters are. We are simply put on a fairly tame, supposedly intellectual sexual journey of Anais Nin.
Not real sure why it got the NC-17, I'm guess it was the homosexual scenes (fairly new to movies in 1990) and the causal treatment of it all.
The bright points are the cinematography and the acting. Fred Ward delivers a performance I didn't know he had in him. The very underrated Uma Thurman is perfect, and Maria de Medeiros plays Anais in a way that is really too wonderful to explain.
But the movie squashes these performances with a fairly boring and unmoving film. 5 out of 10.