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Actors: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Henry and June |
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In 1931 Paris, aspiring French writer and obsessive diarist Anais Nin (de Medeiros) meets Henry Miller (Ward), an expatriate American who has come to Paris to become a writer himself. Nin and her banker husband Hugo Guiler (Grant) financially support the struggling Miller's efforts, but Nin also becomes sexually involved with the American. He talks incessantly about his bisexual wife June, a waitress and aspiring actress in New York about whom he is writing his first major work, "Tropic of Cancer." Eventually June comes to Paris and plays a cranky and demanding muse to the writers, both of whom obsess over and desire her. There are field trips to brothels, and Nin's sex life with her husband becomes more colorful as well. Philip Kaufman made this 1990 film, based on the steamy diary of Nin by the same name, right after "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," and though it is as gorgeous and steamily sensual as the earlier film (this was the first film to earn an NC-17 rating, as a classy alternative to X) and features some terrific performances (especially by WardUn and de Medeiros), it's not as coherent or thematically rich. Richly sensuous film, though.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Henry and June |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- main character serviced by a prostitute
- LESBIANS!!!!!!
- really kinky sex!
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- writer
Poverty story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- actor
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Paris
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- orgies
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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