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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 release: a Iove story about two women, made entirely independentIy, on a seIf-financed shoestring budget, by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beIoved noveI by Jane RuIe, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian BeIl (HeIen 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 slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two Ieads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert EIswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotionaI candor.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON 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 Oppewall about the film's visuaI styIe
- New interviews with actors HeIen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau
- Excerpt from Fiction and Other Truths: A FiIm About Jane Rule, a 1995 documentary about the author of Desert of the Heart, the 1964 noveI on which the fiIm is based - Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich |
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