Henry & June1990
Henry & June (1990)
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Cast
as Henry Miller
as Anais Nin
as June Miller
as Hugo Guiler
as Osborn
as Eduardo
as Jack
as Editor-Publisher
as Spanish Dance Instructor
as Emilia
as Brassai
as Friend
as Clown
as Osborn's Girl Friend
as Magician
as Clown
as Accordionist
as Henry's Whore
as The Patronne
as Frail Prostitute
as Steamship Agent
as Publisher/Editor
as Prostitute Brushing Long Hair
as Bal Negre Performer
as Black Musician for Quat'z Arts Ball
as Man in Silent Film
as Fat Prostitute
as Pop
as Jean
as Contortionist
Critic Reviews for Henry & June
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Following Kaufman's impressive cinematic adaptations of such difficult-to-film works as The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Henry and June is a major disappointment.
An hour too long.
Presented with excessive weight.
As outwardly beautiful as it is inwardly counterfeit.
Beautiful, captivating and spectacularly uninhibited.
Philip Kaufman's erotic chronicle of Henry Miller in Paris, the first movie to get NC-17, is disappointingly long and uneventful, though nice to look at.
Audience Reviews for Henry & June
It is interesting watching a movie in 2009 made with a 1990’s take on a story that take place in the 1940’s. The pitch for the story is that it is an intellectual story with steamy romance, but to me it still comes off as soft core porn with an interesting plot. I have to say that I have never finished reading either Miller work I can’t tolerate his open misogyny to get tot there point. Most of my focus in the movie is to Maria se Mederios and Umma Therman. Maria is delicately beautiful and her acting is very subtle. Her role in the movie is limited to voice-over, long diatribes or intercourse. I would have been more enjoyable to have her as an active participant in her life. In the end the character she portrays does not ring true to the person Anis really was. The young Uma Therman is a beautiful as ever, however the New York accent seems tacked on and would be better off left out. His relationship with Ward is really not well defined. The scenes with Maria are well defined the required manipulative qualities. If you strip away the accent this is probably here best acting role. Fred Wards fake bald head really caught my eye and is really distracting. Kevin Spacey bit part adds more to the picture than Fred Ward. Ward is better suited for blowing-up things in Tremors. Too Bad Spacy was not cast as Miller.
Super Reviewer
A remarkably graphic tale involving Henry Miller. It is surprising but rewarding.
Super Reviewer
Phillip Kaufman's adaptation of the Anais Nin book of the same name is mainly remembered today as the first film to receive an NC-17 rating. This little footnote in film history will probably remain the film's only claim to fame, as I thought it was otherwise a rather lackluster production. Despite the title, June is barely in this, which makes me wonder why Uma Thurman was given first billing. The film's real star is Maria de Medeiros who is probably best remembered for playing Bruce Willis' girlfriend in Pulp Fiction. By the tenth sex scene I was pretty bored with this thing, Henry and June Miller seemed to do very little other than write and fuck, why they decided a movie needed to be made about them I do not know. It was pretty well shot and acted however.
Super Reviewer
Henry & June Quotes
| Henry Miller: | People worry too much about money and ignore their inner self. |