Although Fred Ward would not be most people's idea of the sexiest leading man, this tale based on the works of Anais Nin is far steamier than most of the cornball soft-core porn that passes for erotica these days, and the literary subplot makes an interesting period backdrop.
Artus de Penguern, Bruce Myers, Fred Ward
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 bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer H...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 23, 1999
Stats: 318 reviews
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July 14, 2007
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June 29, 2008
Phillip Kaufman's adaptation of the Anais Nin book of the same name is mainly remembered today as the first film to receive an NC-17 rating. This little footnote in film history will probably remain the film's only claim to fame, as I thought it was otherwise a rather lackluster ...( read more)
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July 21, 2009
It is a chapter of life of the notoriously frank author Henry Miller, in the period when he wrote "Tropic of Cancer in paris, between the wars. Miller left his family behind and migrated to paris for the sole purpose of becoming a great writer, because that's what they did in his...( read more)
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July 8, 2009
It is a chapter in the life of the notoriously frank author Henry Miller, in the period when he wrote "Tropic of Cancer" in Paris, between the wars. Miller left his family behind and migrated to Paris for the sole purpose of becoming a great writer, because that's what they did i...( read more)
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July 4, 2009
I wasn't intrigued by the characters. The erotic tone of the film kept me watching and also Medeiros is such a beauty.
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April 5, 2009
This must be one of the most beautiful erotic movies I have ever watched. One of those movies based on a true story, in this case based on diaries. Wonderful performances of both Uma Thurman & Maria de Madeiros. Definitely worth seeing when mum is not near.
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February 20, 2009
the book makes a lot more sense, but the film moved me. :0) Maria de Medeiros' got, i don't know, such a childish beauty... i like it.
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December 10, 2008
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