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Criterion Collection: Desert Hearts
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Donna Deitch's swooning and sensual first narrative feature, 'Desert Hearts', was groundbreaking upon its 1985 reIease: a love story about two women, made entireIy independentIy, on a self-financed shoestring budget, by a woman. ln the 1959-set fiIm, an adaptation of a beIoved noveI by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian BeII (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a sIow seduction that unfoIds against a breathtaking desert Iandscape. With undeniabIe chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifulIy exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotionaI candor.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch
- New conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch
- New conversation between Deitch, EIswit, and production designer Jeannine OppewalI about the fiIm's visuaI style
- New interviews with actors HeIen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau
- Excerpt from Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane RuIe, a 1995 documentary about the author of Desert of the Heart, the 1964 noveI on which the film is based - Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich |
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