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The film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley . Desert Hearts was released theatrically in the United States on March 7, 1986 [4] and in the United Kingdom on June 6, 1986. [6]
- Jane Rule
- $2.5 million
- 1964
- $1.5 million
Helen Shaver. Actress: Desert Hearts. Helen Shaver has built a lasting legacy, both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed hundreds of hours of television ranging from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) to Castle (2009), from The Unit (2006) to The Outer Limits (1995).
- January 1, 1
- 1.70 m
- St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Jul 19, 2017 · With one lingering, heartsick dissolve, Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), a repressed Columbia professor in town for a quickie divorce, walks through her hotel room, crossing the screen from left to right and literally passing through the mind of her distant and regretful beloved.
In 1985, Shaver starred in Desert Hearts as a 1950s university professor who falls in love with another woman. [5] . Her performance, with co-star Patricia Charbonneau, drew critical praise and Shaver won the Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
YearTitleRoleNotes2010Iris ExpandingIris's MomTV film2008RoseTV film2004Barbara Yates"Becoming", "Trial by Fire"2004Faye Buckley"Luck, Next Time", "Liberally"Helen has always courted controversy, none more so than for her sexually-charged role in the afore-mentioned film, In Praise of Older Women (1978), and for her later performance in Desert Hearts (1985), which featured a torrid lesbian love scene that is still considered one of the most erotic in movie history.
In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape.
