Juneflower is a drama romance film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman and Maria de Medello. Released in Germany in 1990, the film is based on the story of the American surrealist writer Henry Miller, which tells the story of Anne and her banker husband Hugh Gogh settling in Paris and meeting the writer Henry Miller and his wife Joan, and then several people entangled in a love affair. In fact, Henry has five lovers, and the film only tells about two of them.
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Anne and Hughes settled in Paris, Anne was graceful and luxurious, a typical celebrity wife, but in fact, she had a strong fantasy about sex, indulged in d.h. Lawrence, but suffered from the inability to tell.
When she meets Joan and Henry, Anne is impressed by Henry's wisdom, and at the behest of Henry's wife Joan, Anne begins to take care of Henry, and the entanglement between the two is crazy, often not even letting go of the time to come to Anne's house, and once almost being discovered by Hugh.
But Anne fell in love with Joan again and developed a same-sex love for Joan. At the end of the movie, in that familiar street, the husband comes to pick up Annie, and Henry pretends to laugh lightly, pulls his hat, and covers his face.
The acting skills of Annie's performers in the movie also add a lot of points to the film, her whole temperament and role are very suitable, there is Annie's innocent and cute but eager for decadent temperament, with a beautiful style to show the bold exploration of art and human nature of the pre-war elite, it can be said that it is the soul of the film
The film caused a lot of controversy in the film industry at the time because of the excessive love scenes and same-sex emotional scenes, becoming the first film in the United States that was banned from under the age of 17, and was defined as an X-type film, which could not be released in many theaters in the United States. In fact, there are many forms of love, and love movies are also a very special form of expression. There are many kinds of love, Henry and Joan's all-time sexual love, and Anne and Joan's same-sex love that comes from the depths of the spirit. People in the film are sincerely pursuing their own so-called love, and we can't set too many rules and precepts to restrain the director and let us be solidified by the form of the film.