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   Is Desert Hearts based on a true story?

   • Cay still refuses to commit to leaving Nevada, but boards the train at the last minute as it begins to move away, agreeing to accompany Vivian until they reach the next station. Desert Hearts is loosely based on the 1964 romance novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule.

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   Is Desert Hearts a period film?

   • Released in 1985, Desert Hearts is now a period piece in another sense as well, a survivor of an era when U.S. independent film itself was just taking its baby steps, when there were few women directors and barely a lesbian in sight, and when the kind of bold queer filmmaking that would flourish only a few years later was barely hypothetical.

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   What is Desert Hearts about?

   • It takes place in the 1970s in New York City during the women’s liberation movement. It’s all about the world of Desert Hearts, which is a coming-out story and about being your authentic self. And there was a lot of authenticity going on at that time among young women. Young women were really the women who started the movement.

   It's Time to Rediscover DESERT HEARTS, the Landmark Lesbian Romance

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   Is there a classic lesbian film 'Desert Hearts'?

   • "Criterion Collection Announces November Titles, Including Seminal Lesbian Drama 'Desert Hearts' and 'The Philadelphia Story' ". IndieWire. Retrieved September 10, 2017. ^ Catalog of classic Long-Playing albums. Everest Records. 1961. p. 3. Bendix, Trish (December 4, 2016). Classic Lesbian Film "Desert Hearts" Turns 30. GO Magazine.

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   What makes Desert Hearts a great film?

   • This abundance of space is brilliantly shown through the film’s cinematography, as Robert Elswit’s lens lingers on the desert’s vast landscapes to create mesmerising imagery, consumed by the audience as well as the film’s characters. Desert Hearts is the product of Donna Deitch’s determination.

   How Desert Hearts used the Western to pioneer a new vision for queer

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   Is Desert Hearts a sequel?

   • But it’s not a conventional sequel. It takes place in the 1970s in New York City during the women’s liberation movement. It’s all about the world of Desert Hearts, which is a coming-out story and about being your authentic self. And there was a lot of authenticity going on at that time among young women.

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   Apr 2, 2024 · Directed and produced by Donna Deitch (who also co-wrote the film with Natalie Cooper), Desert Hearts tells the story of Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) a prim New York English professor who travels to Reno to finalise her divorce, following a separation from her husband.

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   Desert Hearts is loosely based on the 1964 romance novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule.

   • Author: Jane Rule

   • Publish Year: 1964

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   While Desert Hearts was not the first lesbian love story on celluloid, it was the first major studio release of a Sapphic love story written by a lesbian (based on the novel, Desert of the Heart, by Jane Rule), directed and produced by a lesbian (Donna Deitch), and wholly focused on the story of two women (it passed the Bechdel test before such ...

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   Jul 19, 2017 · It's Time to Rediscover DESERT HEARTS, the Landmark Lesbian Romance that Changed Queer Cinema Forever A classic love story from the queer film canon reemerges. Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver in Donna Deitch's DESERT HEARTS.

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   Desert Hearts. Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman.

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    Nov 14, 2017 · Desert Hearts was the product of Deitch’s artistic ambitions, true, but she also had an uncanny sense of timing: the early eighties marked a time of fertile convergence. American independent cinema was beginning to come into its own, having recently been the subject of a sidebar at the 1979 New York Film Festival programmed by the Independent ...

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    Jun 3, 2024 · The 1964 novel by Janet Rule upon which the film is based, “Desert of the Heart,” was written and published at a time in which same-sex sexual activity in Canada (where Rule and her female partner lived openly) was illegal, punishable by up to five years in prison, [i] and it was one of the first overtly lesbian literary works in history to be i...