Desert Hearts
Sat
9
Sat 9 May 5:30 PM
Platform Arts (Courthouse)
General Admission
91 Mins
May
Special 40th Anniversary screening of the lesbian classic Desert Hearts.
Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape.
Director: Donna Deitch, 1985, United States, 91 mins, English, M 15 moderate content
Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape.
Director: Donna Deitch, 1985, United States, 91 mins, English, M 15 moderate content
May
Platform Arts (Courthouse)
Cnr Little Malop Street and Gheringhap Street
Geelong, Victoria, 3220