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Henry and June movie storyline. 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.
Henry & June is a 1990 American biographical drama film directed by Philip Kaufman, and stars Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros and Uma Thurman. It is loosely based on Anaïs Nin’s French book of the same name, and tells the story of Nin’s relationship with Henry Miller and his wife, June.
The film was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 63rd Academy Awards. It was notable to be the very first film ever made to be assigned an NC-17 rating after the MPAA replaced the X rating with the NC-17 rating. It is also one of three Oscar-nominated films to be released with an NC-17 rating, the other films are Wild at Heart (1990) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was arranged by Mark Adler, consisting of period popular songs.
Jean Lenoir, “Parlez-moi d’amour” (Lucienne Boyer)
Claude Debussy, Six épigraphes antiques: Pour l’égyptienne (Ensemble Musical de Paris)
Francis Poulenc, “Les cheminsode l’amour” (Ransom Wilson and Christopher O’Riley)
Debussy, Petite Suite: “Ballet” (Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky)
Harry Warren, “I Found a Million Dollar Baby” (Bing Crosby)
Erik Satie, “Gnossienne No. 3” (Pascal Rogé)
Satie, “Je te veux” (Jean-Pierre Armengaud)
Debussy, “Sonata for Violin and Piano” (first movement) (Kyung-wha Chung and Radu Lupu)
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne No. 1 in C Major [sic] (Paul Crossley)
Georges Auric, “Sous les toits de Paris” (Rene Nazels)
Jacques Larmanjat, lyrics by Francis Carco, “Le doux caboulot” (Annie Fratellini)
Debussy, “La plus que lente” (Josef Suk)
“Je m’ennuie” (Mark Adler)
“Coralia” (Mark Adler)
Irving Mills, “St. James Infirmary Blues” (Mark Adler)
Francisco Tárrega, “Gran Vals” (Francisco Tárrega)
Joaquin Nin-Culmell, “Basque Song” (Joaquin Nin-Culmell)
Vincent Scotto, lyrics by George Koger and H. Vama, “J’ai deux amours” (Josephine Baker)
Henry and June (1990)
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Bruce Myers, Juan Luis Buñuel, Artus de Penguern, Alexandre De Gall
Screenplay by: Philip Kaufman, Rose Kaufman
Production Design by: Guy-Claude François
Cinematography by: Philippe Rousselot
Film Editing by: Dede Allen, Vivien Hillgrove, William S. Scharf
Costume Design by: Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle
Art Direction by: Thierry François
Music by: Mark Adler
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 5, 1990
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