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We had seen this movie when it first came out and loved it. It's fun, campy and sexy. The new version also allows you to watch the movie with the directors comments played through-out. It is a great way to hear about the making of the movie and what was going on with the characters during each scene. The extra DVD has a great extended version of the hottest scene! A must watch.
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This is one of the best lesbian films ever. The acting is first rate. The script is great. The story is fun, realistic and well-told. Helen Shaver is awesome. She delivers some of the best lines in the film. This one must be added to your collection.
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What's better than watching the sex scene in Desert Hearts? Watching the extended version with behind the scenes footage. That alone makes it worth it to buy the movie again. The interviews with the actors make it even more entertaining. I love Helen Shaver's comment about knowing that she'd never have to sleep on the streets with all those lesbian out there ready to take her in. You can stay at my place any time, sweetheart!
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I saw this movie at the theaters about 6 times when it first came out and lord knows how many times when it was out on video. I snatched up a copy of the DVD as soon as it was released and then just got the 2-disc version!
A great movie - from the location, the era (and accuracy of everything - down to the clothing and music).
I just read an article in the latest issue of Curves Magazine (Sept '07) all about Desert Hearts and there IS a sequel in the works. Donna Dietch mentioned how it would take place in the late 60's-early 70's - altho Kay and Vivian would not be the "main" characters of the movie - altho they'd be in it. (Personally I think they've aged a bit in the last 20 years to come across being only 10 years older in the sequel!) She hasn't started work on it - but it IS in the planning stages! Too bad we all had to wait 21 years for that news!
Sadly two of the movie's co-stars wouldn't appear in a sequel - Audra Lindley (Frances - Kay's step-mom) and Andra Akers (Silver) - have both passed on. May they both rest in peace knowing they contributed GREATLY to a wonderful film!
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Lesbians and queer women everywhere can, and should, rejoice at the re-release of Desert Hearts (1985) in a 2-disc vintage collection set. A cult classic, Desert Hearts is one of the first full-length feature films premised on a lesbian love story. Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), an established English professor, travels to Reno for a quick divorce from her husband where she meets Cay Rivvers (Patricia Charbonneau), a casino change-girl with a flair for white satin cowboy ensembles. Their attraction to each other is more than just platonic, and it is this growing sexual tension between the austere and staid English professor and the carefree and passionate casino worker that drives the film.
The focus on the sexual tension between Vivian and Cay is the film's most significant difference from its source, Jane Rule's novel The Desert of the Heart (1964). The centerpiece of the novel is not Vivian's relationship with Cay, but her consciousness as she grapples with her life in its transitional state. Formally, this struggle is represented by the use of free indirect discourse and internal monologue, both of which function to reveal Vivian's confusion and fear about the new direction of life and of her feelings for Cay. The director of Desert Hearts forgoes direct representation of Vivian's internal struggle and, instead, lets the camera do the talking: the film is filled with silences, which are intended to be profound and palpable, but which are inherently unreadable.
It is this unreadability--this uncertainty--that makes the love scene terribly unnerving. The scene begins with Cay forcing her way into Vivian's hotel room in order to discuss their relationship. When Vivian returns from making herself a drink she finds Cay naked in bed, the white sheets drawn to her navel, her breasts exposed. Vivian asks Cay repeatedly to "put on [her] clothes and leave," but Cay ignores her request and, instead, predicates her actions on her interpretation of Vivian's thoughts. She believes she knows exactly what Vivian wants, even if Vivian claims to want the opposite.
In her commentary, director Donna Deitch claims that she wanted to create the "requisite amount of emotional connection" necessary for the climatic love scene. But this connection is artificial; Vivian here reacts more like Patty Hearst than a consenting adult. In the end, the two spend hours in bed together, and the message is "No means Yes--with a little coaxing." This is where the film's deviation from the novel's primary theme of self-discovery to one of seduction is of consequence because seduction itself is a fraught category. Seduction is not a "bad" thing--like Cay, we all have, or have wanted to, seduce an English professor or two. But it is the exhilaration of seduction that also renders it dangerous: assumed emotions, forced thoughts and crossed boundaries. This film is brilliantly groundbreaking in various ways, but one has to wonder if it also has paved the way for current cinematic representations of the "monstrous" lesbian.
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