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Henry & June

5.7

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Original title

Henry & Juneaka

AKA

Henry and June

Year

1990

Running time

130 min.

Country

United States

Director

Philip Kaufman

Screenwriter

Philip Kaufman, Rose Kaufman. Autobiography: Anaïs Nin

Cast

Music

Mark Adler

Cinematography

Philippe Rousselot

Producer

Universal Pictures

Genre

Drama. Romance | Biography. 1930s. Erotic. Literature. Romantic Drama. Gay & Lesbian

Synopsis

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.

Awards: 1990: Nominated for Oscar: Best Cinematography

1990: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 nominations

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Critics' reviews

"An old-fashioned literary biopic with all cliches intact"

Kim Newman: Screendaily
"Intelligently scripted, particularly good on the pain in relationships, it doesn't shed much light on the literary commerce between the writers."

Time Out
"With Henry & June, [Kaufman] has had the courage to look at the many unconventional faces of love with grace and sympathy."

San Francisco Chronicle
"Kaufman, trying to deepen the erotic explorations of Unbearable Lightness, ends up with a triangle movie that’s watchable but also arty and rather stilted"

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"Beautiful, captivating and spectacularly uninhibited one"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"Henry and June is so gentle it almost floats away--but it’s a movie that can’t just be dismissed. It may be a failure but it’s a one-of-a-kind-failure"

Peter Rainer: Los Angeles Times
"While visually lush and inviting, this insular, self-absorbed film is more a violation than a celebration of the lives of two of literatures foremost sensualists"·

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"It effortlessly pairs that oddest of all couples, sexual desire and cerebral activity. It is, as a friend commented in a phrase Nin and Miller would have loved, 'an erection for the mind'" [05 Oct 1990]

The Globe and Mail

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