Movie Info

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 ...(read more...) 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 When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to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

Director: Philip Kaufman

MPAA: NC-17

Running Time: 136 min.

Release Date: Oct 05, 1990

Cast: Artus de Penguern, Bruce Myers, Fred Ward, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Juan Luis Bunuel, Kevin Spacey, Maria de Madeiros, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant, Sylvie Huguel, Uma Thurman