Desert Hearts (Criterion Collection) R
In 1959, Vivian Bell came to Reno, Nevada for a quick divorce. Of all the people she met there, the one who surprised her the most was herself.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 14, 2017
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Helen Shaver & Patricia Charbonneau | |
| Performer: | Audra Lindley, Dean Butler, Gwen Welles, James Staley, Alex McArthur & Denise Crosby | |
| Directed by | Donna Deitch | |
| Edited by | Robert Estrin | |
| Art Direction by | David Brisbin | |
| Produced by | Donna Deitch | |
| Director of Photography: | Robert Elswit |
Entertainment Reviews:
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One of the film's most fascinating features is the use of rock and country music to build a world in which there are only two human conditions: romantic fulfillment, and romantic loneliness.
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Commonweal
...[Shaver] does a commendable job....Deitch offers some sound film making...
Variety
Desert Hearts, a daring and accomplished first feature by perceptive director Donna Deitch, is a movie that sneaks up on you.
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Gannett News Service
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The story is not sensationalistic, although its love scene could not be more emotional. It`s a gentle story of someone being brought in from the cold.
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Chicago Tribune
It advocates risk and consciousness in tandem as the only means to overcome the cold, repressive hand of so-called normative thought.
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Slant Magazine
Desert Hearts is an important, overlooked film in the struggle to get gay characters on the screen. T
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: B+ --
It's this evocation of a homophobia-free universe that elevates Desert Hearts from mere lesbian melodrama to the most tantalizing of wish-fulfillment fantasies.
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Product Description:
An east coast English professor travels to Reno intent on dissolving her unfulfilling 12-year marriage and meets up with a fiery yet sensitive lesbian casino worker who forces her to confront emotions she hasn't experienced in years.
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- Sales Rank: 64,790
- UPC: 715515206013
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