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.

Plot Keywords

1930s, based on novel, writer, author, adulterous wife, paris france, dysfunctional marriage, open relationship, bohemian, female pubic hair, lust, female rear nudity, female frontal nudity, female full frontal nudity, sex in bed, adultery, lesbian, public nudity, prostitute, lingerie

Short Review

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.

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