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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NC-17
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783230559
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783230559
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 23, 1999
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 15769
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: October 05, 1990
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose husband is slowly defecting from art to working in a bank, leaving her very bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his wife, June (Uma Thurman), who finances her husband's life in Paris so he may praise her beauty in his writing. Unhappy with her husband's writing and her lovers' affair, June enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist mode and Nin back to her husband. Despite having one of the more erotic scenes of the 1990s, between Nin and June, the film does not live up to its subject, largely due to a mediocre screenplay and flawed direction. The strength of the original material and Medeiros's decidedly unflawed performance, however, make it worth viewing. --James McGrath
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Splendid Work of Art
Henry and June is the tale of colleagues who become lovers, yet remained married to others. This movie is sensual, sensational, stimulating, sexy, smart. It tells a story about how passion can overcome those who work together and admire their minds as well as their bodies. Aspects of infidelity as being not such a horrible sin, of love between women as natural, and of jealousy are treated realistically. There are plots and subplots intertwined. The characters are well developed. Also, the ... Read More
Rating:  - Women who believe playing heads games by being
mysterious in the belief that it makes them "creative" will like this film. As will those who don't (yet) see through Nin's phoniness.
When Nin was having an affair with Otto Rank, she took a trip to the US. As a going away gift, Rank gave her a dress. When she returned he noticed a hole in the dress, cut with scissors. She told him she'd spilled wine on it aboard ship. Actually, what she cut out was a semen stain.
It's easy to be "mysterious" if one is a serial ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting movie, regular edition
I purchased this because the R2 european edition doesn't have spanish subtitles. Both editions have regular-to-bad video and audio trasfers, what is quite disappointing because this movie's cinematography is lovely.
Seldom [wrongly] clasified as soft erotic, the movie itself is quite appealing, specially for those interested in Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller figures and artists life in Paris at late 20s.
Rating: - Promises the moon, delivers an eclipse.
Henry and June (Phillip Kaufman, 1990)
It seems I start every review of an NC-17 movie with great gusting sighs of frustration about how the NC-17 rating promises so much, and somehow fails to deliver every time. NC-17 should be a code for "literate porn", but in reality, it usually has more to do with a filmmaker refusing to cut three buttock thrusts (which David Lynch did to score an R for Wild at Heart) or one almost subliminal and entirely unerotic scene (which Darren Aronofsky refused ... Read More
Rating: - Seemed Dated
The girls get sensual. The guys are props or toys. This one is for the girls. I'm surprised a big star, Uma Thurman, early in her career, no doubt, she really gets into it with little Maria de Medeiros. I found myself fast forwarding through the love scenes for three reasons: seen one vintage lingerie scene, seen them all, with the advent of accessible adult fare there's no reason for this stuff in mainstream art films, my own mature life is just as interesting and sensual. This is a problem for modern ... Read More
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