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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.
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Desert Hearts is a 1985 movie directed by Donna Deitch, and it quickly became a cult classic in the LGBTQ+ community.
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Jul 13, 2017 · Donna Deitch's groundbreaking classic of queer cinema, a brand new restoration of "Desert Hearts" opens on July 19 at New York's IFC Center.
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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.
A New York professor (Helen Shaver) divorces her husband and has an affair with another woman (Patricia Charbonneau) in 1959 Reno.
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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.
A professor in her 30s travels to Reno to get a divorce and falls in love with a ranch hand in the 1950s. Roger Ebert praises the chemistry between the two actresses and the director's restraint in the sex scene.
