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Desert Hearts is a American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. The screenplay, written by Natalie Cooper, is an adaptation of the lesbian novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Set in Reno, Nevada in Desert of the Heart, it tells the story of a university professor awaiting a divorce who finds her true self through a relationship with another, more self-confident woman. InDesert of the Heart Bell, a year-old English professor at Columbia University in New York Citytravels to Reno to establish residency in Nevada a process that takes six weeksin order to obtain a quickie divorce. Desert of the Heart stays at a guest house ranch for women who are waiting for their divorces to be finalized. The ranch is owned by Frances Parker. Soon after her arrival in Reno, Vivian meets Cay Rivvers, a young, free-spirited sculptor. Frances was the longtime mistress of Cay's late father, Glenn, and raised Cay after her biological mother Glenn's wife abandoned her. Cay is employed as a change operator at a casino in Reno, and is ending Desert of the Heart relationship with Darrell, her controlling boss, saying that she was "attracted to his attraction" to her. When Vivian arrives, Cay takes an immediate interest Desert of the Heart her; the proper, elegant Vivian is taken aback by Cay's lack of concern for what others think of her, as Cay has had relationships with women in the past. Frances, dismayed by Cay's lesbianism but frightened by the possibility of Cay leaving her alone, becomes resentful as Cay and Vivian grow closer. After they attend an engagement party for Silver, Cay's best friend and co-worker, Cay takes a mildly inebriated Vivian to see Lake Tahoe at twilight and kisses her. Vivian returns the kiss passionately, but then becomes apprehensive and asks Cay Desert of the Heart take her home. When they return to the ranch Desert of the Heart the next morning, Frances angrily kicks Vivian out and accuses her of seducing Cay. Deeply hurt, Desert of the Heart leaves the ranch immediately as Vivian transfers to a hotel near the casino for the rest of her stay. Later, Cay arrives at Vivian's hotel room, where they initially clash but ultimately consummate their love after Cay removes Desert of the Heart clothes and invites Vivian to bed. With the impending finalization of Vivian's divorce, the two struggle with the future of their relationship. At Silver's wedding, Cay attempts to reconcile with Frances, stating that Vivian "just reached in and Desert of the Heart a string of lights around my heart," directly quoting Frances's own description of how she fell in love with Glenn. After Vivian's divorce has become finalized, she packs up and boards a train to return to New York City. Cay still refuses to commit to leaving Nevada, but boards the train at the last minute as it begins to move away, agreeing to accompany Vivian until they reach the next station. Other characters were minimized or excluded, subplots were eliminated, and the love scene was made explicit. Jane Rule described the film as "beautifully simplified". Desert of the Heart largest group of investors were lesbian and feminist women in several cities of the U. She gave fundraising parties and published a regular newsletter to keep investors informed about the project's development. Raising funds took almost four years. She eventually sold her house to cover completion costs. In New York as Art. In LA I convinced them it would be a box office hit. Deitch encountered difficulty finding actresses who would portray lesbians without reserve with many refusing to audition for the film. Deitch noticed the chemistry between Desert of the Heart and Helen Shaver immediately. Limited funds often necessitated filming two scenes in one day, with little room for retakes. Renting space in a real casino was out of the question and a dressed set in a room of an abandoned hotel served as the gambling casino in the film. The contract with Charbonneau and Shaver obligated them to perform the sex scene in the hotel room without body doubles and to be nude on camera from the waist down. The scene was shot on the second-to-last day of filming, with cinematographer Robert Elswit and a boom operator as the only crew members present. In a Globe and Mail interview, Shaver said that she was being considered for a role in Joshua Then and Nowwhich would have promoted her career much farther than Desert Hearts. Donna Deitch assured her over the phone that she was right for her movie and told her she Desert of the Heart to hang up the phone until she got an answer. After five minutes, Shaver accepted the role. I had always wanted to carry a movie. Now, if I never make another one, I've done this. For the first time, I feel I've done a complete work on film. Desert Hearts was Patricia Charbonneau's film debut. I wanted to do something that at least people would talk about. Even if they hated it, they'd be talking about it. The hard part was just walking out on the set naked and just standing there. Donna Deitch was surprised to learn 20 years Desert of the Heart the film's release that Helen Shaver [f] and Patricia Charbonneau were told by their friends and agents that the film would ruin their careers. In AprilDonna Deitch announced that she was fundraising to produce a sequel to Desert of the Heart Heartsto be set in New York City during the women's liberation movement. It was wide released in the U. The reaction by film critics was mixed. In his scathing review for The New York TimesVincent Canby criticized the screenplay as "unimaginative", described its characters as having "so little life", and the film as lacking a "voice or style of its own", but did add that it "is so earnest and sincere that it deserves an A for deportment". In the review for The Body PoliticEd Jackson said the screenplay was "spiked with hilarious one-liners", described the love scene as "a luminous study in gentle eroticism, almost painfully intimate", and the film as "a treat that is both soft-centred and sugar-coated", "handsome, well- constructed", and "much more dense than the simple propaganda that it might at first resemble. Deitch's film is a passionate, beautifully controlled drama about making choices and exercising the heart: in a word, about living. In his critical study about homosexuality in the movies, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Moviesfilm historian Vito Russo wrote: " Desert Hearts is a love story that recreates with perceptiveness and tenderness what it Desert of the Heart have been like for two women of different generations and backgrounds to fall in love in the Fifties Deitch's refusal to feature the straight world's reaction to lesbianism as the focus of her film made all the difference in the way the relationship between the women was perceived by audiences. This is the point at which many heterosexual critics disqualify themselves from perceptively reviewing gay films. With the passage of time, Desert Hearts has gained recognition for its quality and impact on lesbian cinema. InThe Sydney Morning Herald declared, "Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts is widely regarded as one of the best and most significant mainstream fiction Desert of the Heart about lesbians. The Lesbian Film Guide states: "It is no exaggeration to say that in Desert Hearts was the film many lesbians had waited for all their lives. For the first time in cinema history here was a movie which was an unashamedly romantic lesbian love story, aimed primarily at a lesbian audience. Helen Shaver revealed that screen legend Greta Garbo was so impressed with her performance in the film that they attempted to meet but due to Garbo's poor health instead talked over the phone. Lesbian literary critic Camille Paglia praised the film for its "riveting performances", having seen it 11 times in theaters. She claimed that Patricia Charbonneau's "magic" came from hormonal glow, as she had found out she was pregnant before shooting began. Actress Jane Lynch said she had never "seen in celluloid such real passion and desire between two women" and had watched the video "over 50 times". Prince, Desert of the Heart and executive director of North Jersey Pride, wrote in that Desert Hearts "was refreshingly different, not only because the characters weren't psychotic, but also because it didn't end in depressing, unrequited love For a coming-out movie, it's as good as it gets. In an assessment of lesbian genre films since the s, Slate said the film was "immensely popular with lesbian audiences" and earned " cult classic status Ruby Richconversations between Donna Deitch and film crew plus Jane Lynch, and the audio commentary by Deitch included in the release by Wolfe Video. Deitch asked the Goldwyn Company to extend the rights to the music to release a soundtrack on Desert of the Heart or compact cassettebut the studio declined. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film Desert Hearts. For the Desert of the Heart group, see Desert Hearts band. Theatrical release poster. Desert Hearts Productions [1]. Release date. Running time. Wayne WalkerWebb Pierce. Richard Rodgers Desert of the Heart, Lorenz Hart. Joe AllisonAudrey Allison. Ralph RaingerDorothy Parker. She says to Vivian Bell: "If you don't play, you can't win. They married in Retrieved September 9, Janus Films. Retrieved September 19, Archived from the original on January 16, Retrieved January 15, Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 19, British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved September 11, The Globe and Mail. Retrieved November 29, The Body Politic. Retrieved February 8, Chicago Tribune. Hazlitt Magazine. Retrieved March 21, Retrieved January 23, Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 2, Watch Desert Hearts Streaming Online | Hulu (Free Trial)

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. Desert of the Heart classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel. Set in the late s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous year marriage. While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency requirement she meets Ann Ch Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency requirement she meets Ann Childs, a casino worker and fifteen years her junior. Physically, they are remarkably alike and eventually have an affair and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can last. Desert of the Heart examines the conflict between convention and freedom and the ways in which the characters try to resolve the conflict. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published July 1st by Bella Books first published More Details Original Title. Nevada United States. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Desert of the Heartplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Desert of the Heart. Evelyn and Ann are the two lovers at the centre of the story, but that is much too simple a description of their relationship View 1 comment. Desert of the Heart is a groundbreaking novel in the context of lesbian literature. Written in and eventually published inalbeit after significant changes, this novel marked Jane Rule out as a visionary and a spokesperson for Desert of the Heart generation of lesbians, daring to defy the idea that marriage is a ticket to normality. Desert of the Hearts is a wise and witty novel that in essence tells the Desert of the Heart of English professor, Dr Evelyn Hall, and her desire to be free of the confines of a marriage Desert of the Heart is a groundbreaking novel in the context of lesbian literature. Desert of Desert of the Heart Hearts is a wise and witty novel that in essence tells the story of English professor, Dr Evelyn Hall, and her desire to be free of the confines of a marriage and live as an independent woman. She touches down in the swelteringly desert ahead of finalising her divorce with a six-week residency requirement at the boarding house of Mrs Frances Packer ahead of her. In debt, unemployed and having given up the facade of working on his thesis, Evelyn financially keeps George, and they have not seen in public together for over five-years. They are then Desert of the Heart or defended as the idioms of living. For everyone, foreign by birth or by nature, convention is a mark of fluency. That is why, for any woman, marriage is the idiom of life. It is their uncanny resemblance to each other that breaks the ice, and this can perhaps be interpreted as a subtle reference to their future shared persuasions. The connection between the two in instant and the fascination mutual, despite Desert of the Heart very different paths in life, however the often philosophical discussions about their circumstances show that Ann is every bit as intelligent as Evelyn. Rule makes much of the casino workplace of Ann, with the occasionally crude burlesque beauty, Silver, her closet ally. Boss at the casino, Bill, is awkward in the company of Ann, a woman whom he loved but who felt unable to make or share a life with him and her rejection has left him smarting. Having engaged with both Bill and Silver on occasions, is it Ann that is Desert of the Heart comfortable with her own sexuality to the significantly older Evelyn. However, Desert of the Heart does not speak explicitly of lesbianism. I suspect these aspects were required to dilute the idea that lesbian love could ever be an Desert of the Heart choice Desert of the Heart opposed to a situation that has been enforced by problems specific to an individuals psyche, but these aspects do belittle the power of the story. It is the mostly unspoken and evolving attraction between the two woman that is the focus of Desert of the Heart, but Rule also takes time to ruminate of the Desert of the Heart of the desert and the strange mix of people that populate and pass through Reno. Reading the novel in highlights how dated and irrelevant many of the preoccupations are, but it also highlights the necessary discretion between same sex couples that was a requirement of the s era. View all 6 comments. Aug 05, Bett rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: everyone. It is a remarkable, perfect little book. It says what it has to say, in Desert of the Heart first paragraph, and it ends just as it should. They are then defended or excused as the idioms of living. For some people, this makes life an absurdity devoid of meaning. People are born, grow up, go to school, get mar It is a remarkable, perfect little book. People are born, grow up, go to school, get married, get jobs, raise children, and die. This Desert of the Heart examines the absurdity of this idiom for some people. The convention of marriage, for homosexual people, is absurd. The cliche of fidelity and forsaking all others, for some, is meaningless, a promise impossible for humans to keep. The story involves a woman who lived within these conventions all her life, even while feeling emotionally detached, outside them, as if she were speaking a foreign language. She meets another woman who has spent her life deliberately, consciously, living outside these conventions, even though studying them and the effects of trying to live within their boundaries. When these two women begin a relationship, one in defiance of those idioms of Iife, one accepting that their relationship may just be a visit outside the lines for her partner, the tension comes when each must acknowledge that what she thought about Iiving Desert of the Heart and outside those boundaries may not be true. For Evelyn Hall, respectable college professor, stepping outside the conventions of her life forces her to examine them and question what she never before doubted, that women are supposed to marry, have children, and that she has failed because she played poorly at this game. She is forced to examine the basis for her assumptions about morality and love. Ann Childs is forced to explore whether the cliches about love, the ones she has defied and dismissed all her life, might not hold some truth. If she accepts that she does love Evelyn, does that mean then that she must accept the other cliches about love that she has denied, that some of them might indeed be real and achievable, like fidelity, like "forsaking all others? Is it our nature to marry men, bear children, and is it unnatural to seek love outside those accepted parameters? Is it our will, our intellect, that allows us to explore love outside the accepted convention of heterosexuality? Is it the will that bends us into the conventions of life, subduing our nature, which seeks out love wherever it may? Are those established conventions, old and worn, there to protect us from our nature or to bend our will away from our natural inclinations? If, in admitting and accepting her love for Ann, Evelyn is responding to her own nature, long denied, what does that say about the foundations on which her life was lived? This book is so well put together that I could not remove one line, one sentence, without unbalancing the whole. The movie that was Desert of the Heart upon this book left out a great deal and added elements that are not there. It is set in the early 's, and does a fine job of conveying the flavor of that period with the music and the fashions and the automobiles. Instead of portraying Ann Childs as an intellectual, she is shown as rebellious, wild, promiscuous, and unaware of herself until she falls in love with Evelyn. Evelyn is shown as reserved and appalled at Ann's wildness, shocked, until she gives in to her own inner nature and makes love with Ann. And the movie does hold true to the theme of accepting love in whatever form you find it, for its own sake. I find almost none of the original, beautiful lines from the book in the dialogue of the movie. Jane Rule Desert of the Heart a remarkable writer. If my own writing has been influenced by hers, consciously or unconsciously, I could find no other guide. I read this on a train ride out west; my first time visiting the desert. Perhaps the vast Nevada landscape of this book is a world apart from the rocky deserts of Colorado and Utah my destinations. But to a Desert of the Heart Englander, Desert of the Heart are just alike, and I loved reading Desert of the Heart while experiencing a sense of its setting firsthand. I saw the film adaptation, Desert Heartsseveral years ago. My memory of it is pretty foggy, but what lingers is the sense of place. The endless empty sky and san I read this on a train ride out west; my first time visiting the Desert of the Heart. The endless empty sky and sand are intimidating to protagonist Evelyn, and a comfort to her love interest, the younger Ann. And despite the timelessness of the desert, the semi-oppressive early s setting stands out, too. Ann is a little bit lost, but confident in her intention "to love the whole damned world. PDF Download Desert Of The Heart Free

Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Check out our picks for family friendly movies movies that transcend all ages. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. See the full list. It is s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a quickie divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels Desert of the Heart of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self- assured lesbian, and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs. This is possibly the best lezzie film made thus far. It has enough production values to be attractive, yet does not have Desert of the Heart big Hollywood machinery that grinds everything into pablum. It's also not a sex film, but it is a fine indie effort. Both Shaver and Charbonneau are highly appealing. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. A woman on the precipice of divorce becomes drawn to a ranchowner's daughter. Director: Donna Deitch. Writers: Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart, Natalie Cooper. Watch on Realeyz with Prime Video Channels. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. The Hidden Gems. Best of the Desert of the Heart. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Helen Shaver Vivian Bell Patricia Charbonneau Cay Rivvers Audra Lindley Frances Parker Andra Akers Silver Gwen Welles Gwen Dean Butler Darrell James Staley Art Warner Katie La Bourdette Lucille Alex McArthur Walter Tyler Tyhurst Buck Denise Crosby Pat Antony Ponzini Joe Brenda Beck Joyce Sam Minsky Best Man Patricia Frazier Desert of the Heart all the people she met there, the one who surprised her the most was herself. Edit Did You Know? Trivia Patricia Charbonneau filmed the entire movie while pregnant. Goofs In the hotel room when Vivian recounts to Cay the confrontation earlier between herself and Francis, she says she Vivian was standing in the rain when in reality the confrontation took place when the weather was sunny and dry. Quotes Vivian : I won't take off my robe. Cay : Well, we all have to draw the line somewhere. The most noticeable cut is in the sex scene which is slightly briefer than the original. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Desert of the Heart Report this. Add the first question. Country: USA. Language: English. Runtime: 91 min. Sound Mix: Mono. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Frances Parker.

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