Cover image for Desert hearts
Title:
Desert hearts
Author:
Deitch, Donna, 1945- film producer, film director.
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publication Information:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.
General Note:
Based on the novel, Desert of the heart' by Jane Rule.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit, audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; newconversationo between Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style; new interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau; excerpt from Fiction and truths: a film about Jane Rule, a 1995 documentary about the author of Desert of the heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based; an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich.

Closed-captioned.
Language:
English
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781681433752
UPC:
715515206013
Format :
DVD