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Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. [5] The screenplay, written by Natalie Cooper, is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule .
- Jane Rule
- 1964
Apr 2, 2024 · Donna Deitch's Queer Americana Desert Hearts has become a cult classic. We pen a thoughtful essay on the legacy of the romantic drama.
Desert Hearts, which has been digitally restored by Criterion Collection and Janus Films (together with the UCLA Film & Television Archive), is being re-released starting July 19, a year after its 30th anniversary, and it’s more relevant than ever in this increasingly repressive climate, with a Supreme Court that threatens to swing further to ...
Nov 14, 2017 · Just so in Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts, in which a dude ranch in 1950s Reno, Nevada, is transformed into a magical space where anything is possible, even the kind of lesbian happily-ever-after ending never seen before in a movie theater.
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.
- Vivian Bell
Desert Hearts. Jump to Edit. Summaries. While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian. It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a quickie divorce.
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Nov 28, 2007 · In celebration of Pride Month, the AFI Catalog shines a spotlight on director Donna Deitch’s 1986 landmark romantic drama DESERT HEARTS, considered to be the first mainstream feature film to depict lesbianism without prejudicial, fetishizing tropes and shame.
