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.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Romance films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- 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