Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Fred Ward | ... | Henry Miller | |
Uma Thurman | ... | June Miller | |
Maria de Medeiros | ... | Anaïs Nin | |
Richard E. Grant | ... | Hugo | |
Kevin Spacey | ... | Osborn | |
Jean-Philippe Écoffey | ... | Eduardo (as Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) | |
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Bruce Myers | ... | Jack |
Juan Luis Buñuel | ... | Publisher / Editor (as Jean-Luis Bunuel) | |
Féodor Atkine | ... | Spanish Dance Instructor (as Feodor Atkine) | |
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Sylvie Huguel | ... | Emilia |
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Artus de Penguern | ... | Brassaï |
Pierre Étaix | ... | Henry's Friend No. 1 (as Pierre Etaix) | |
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Pierre Edernac | ... | Henry's Friend No. 2 - Magician |
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Gaëtan Bloom | ... | Henry's Friend No. 3 - Magician (as Gaetan Bloom) |
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Alexandre De Gall | ... | Henry's Friend No. 4 - Clown |
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work, "Tropic of Cancer," a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry's portrayal of her, and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
A lot was good here. One of the thing that was "bad" was almost certainly deliberate -- the contrast between the coarse, gross facial features of Fred Ward, in juxtaposition with the extremely delicate visage of Maria de Medeiros. One thing that could have been better: the "baldness" of Fred Ward. I don't know him, and don't know if he's bald, but this looked like a very bad make-up job. Surely they could do better in 1990. Or did Miller shave the top of his head and pretend to be bald? I don't know, but I doubt it. In spite of the title, the movie is really about Anais Nin. This was a fine performance by Miss de Medieros, and is worth watching for that alone. It won't appeal to the car chase-and-explosion crowd, but it's not for them anyway. I don't see what made the difference from an "R" rating.