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Desert Hearts was released theatrically in the United States on March 7, 1986 [4] and in the United Kingdom on June 6, 1986. [6] It is regarded as the first feature film to "de-sensationalize lesbianism" by presenting a positive portrayal of a lesbian romance.
- Jane Rule
- 1964
Desert Hearts: Directed by Donna Deitch. With Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers. While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
- Donna Deitch
- 2 min
In 1959 in Reno, Nevada, 35-year-old college professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives by train where she takes up temporary residence at a ranch until her quickie six-week divorce becomes final. Ranch owner Frances Parker (Audra Lindley) meets her at the station.
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 ...
Jan 9, 2015 · Time Out says. To Reno (in 1959) comes a mid-thirtyish New York teacher, her hair in a bun and her nerves in shreds, in search of a divorce from a stultified marriage. She puts up at a local...
Jul 21, 2017 · A romance that celebrates the joys of intimacy and eschews the conventional gloominess of many of its lesbian-cinema forebears, Desert Hearts tells the story of a buttoned-up professor who travels out west to file for divorce and the young artist with whom she unexpectedly falls in love.
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Oct 2, 2017 · For the uninitiated, Desert Hearts, adapted from a novel by Jane Rule, is set in 1959 Reno as straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives to file for divorce.
