Desert hearts

DVD - 2017

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.

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Genres
Feature films
Romance films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2017]
Language
English
Other Authors
Donna Deitch, 1945- (film director), Natalie Cooper (screenwriter), Patricia Charbonneau (actor), Helen (Helen Jane) Shaver, 1951- (-), Jane Rule
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen
Item Description
Adapated from the novel Deserrt of the heart, by Jane Rule.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit, audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; newconversationo between Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style; new interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau; excerpt from Fiction and truths: a film about Jane Rule, a 1995 documentary about the author of Desert of the heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Robert Elswit ; editor, Robert Estrin.
ISBN
9781681433752
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

When a buttoned-down Eastern-college English professor (Helen Shaver) goes to Reno in 1959 for a quickie divorce, sparks start to fly with a free-spirited casino -cashier (Patricia Charbonneau) in Donna Deitch's landmark lesbian love story. More than three decades after its theatrical release, this high-definition restoration makes the starry-eyed chemistry-never mind the lovely desert landscape-jump off the screen. Cast and crew interviews, along with other supplements, strengthen the film's legacy as an honest treatment of self-acceptance amid lust in the dust. (Trailers, LJ 10/1/17) © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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