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Mar 7, 1986 · 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.
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DESERT HEARTS depended on the connection between its two lead actors, Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver, and on their trust in director Donna Deitch. In the following program, made in New York in 2017, the actors and the director discuss the making of the film, the close bond they formed, and...
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Helen Shaver. ... Vivian Bell. Patricia Charbonneau. ... Cay Rivvers. Audra Lindley.
Robert Estrin. "Desert Hearts" tells the story of a woman in her 30s who suddenly is awakened to the turmoils of passionate love, and because that is basically a simple story, this is basically a simple movie. What makes it unusual is that the story is set in the 1950s and the woman falls in love with a lesbian.
Desert Hearts. LGBTQ 1985 1 hr 31 min. Available on Prime Video, Max. 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. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by ...
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
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 Filmmaker Project, which had been founded earlier ...
