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"I've done the vilest things, the foulest things? but I've done them superbly." In 1931 Paris, writer Anaïs Nin lives happily with her husband Ian, but feels a lack of emotional and creative fulfilment. When she meets aspiring novelist Henry Miller she becomes fascinated by his bohemian lifestyle, and is soon also captivated by his beautiful wife June. But the more time she spends with them, the more she is drawn into a complicated web of love, desire, jealousy and ambition. Acclaimed filmmaker Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) directs this erotic adaptation of Anaïs Nin's posthumously-published memoir, the first film to ever receive the NC-17 rating in the US. Stars Fred Ward (The Right Stuff), Uma Thurman (Dangerous Liaisons), Maria de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction), and Richard E. Grant (Withnail and I). 1500 copies only.
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Henry & June (1990)
136 min
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.