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Mar 15, 2018 · By Pauline Lampert. The legacy of Donna Deitch’s 1985 romantic drama, Desert Hearts, typically concerns its standing as the first American film to feature a lesbian couple in which neither partner dies, is institutionalized, or winds up in a heterosexual relationship. It is an unabashedly queer film, made on a shoestring budget and set in ...
Directed by Donna Deitch • 1985 • United States 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.
Limited Release in United States July 19, 2017. Released in United States August 1985. Released in United States June 5, 1990. Released in United States Spring April 4, 1986
Nov 23, 2017 · Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, <I>Desert Hearts</I>, was groundbreaking upon its 1985 release: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a self-financed shoestring budget, by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for ...
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian. 32 IMDb 7.1 1 h 31 min 1986. R.
Jul 20, 2017 · “Desert Hearts” took home a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, broke box office records, and received worldwide distribution from the Samuel Goldwyn Company following a bidding war. In the 31 ...
Desert Hearts is a groundbreaking 1985 romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch, and it is considered a milestone in queer cinema. The movie was adapted ...
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