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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 sensuaI first narrative feature, 'Desert Hearts', was groundbreaking upon its 1985 release: a love story about two women, made entireIy independently, on a self-financed shoestring budget, by a woman. In the 1959-set fiIm, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitIaced East Coast professor Vivian BelI (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 sIow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert Iandscape. With undeniabIe chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotionaI candor.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert EIswit, 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 Film About Jane Rule, 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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