Henry & June (1990)
Directed by Philip Kaufman
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.
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The cyclist is Evelyn, played by Chiara D’Anna, whose demure Euro-exoticism appropriately recalls Maria de Medeiros circa Henry & June.
His Henry & June (1990), a sexy, literate bio-pic about the torrid relationship between writers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, caused the rating system to change its stigmatizing "X" to a more palatable NC-17.
Kaufman followed it up with Henry & June, the first film to receive the MPAA's NC-17 rating — the new equivalent of the X, meant to ghettoize art films rather than pornography.
Director Philip Kaufman makes movies about people who want to (as one of his characters once put it) "alter the experiment": the James-Younger outlaw gang in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid , the self-absorbed libertines of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Henry & June , the Mercury astronauts with their cartoon machismo in The Right Stuff .
Instead, the helmer provides quality, and sometimes groundbreaking work, like the paean to America's space program, "The Right Stuff," and his controversial, NC-17 (the very first movie rated as such) "Henry & June."
Philip Kaufman, whose "Henry & June" was the first NC-17-rated film, ups the ante with a fictional account of the final days of history's most infamous pervert with a pen, the Marquis de Sade.