Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。大卫是一位小有名气的剧作家,为了能有更好的创作环境,大卫携爱妻艾米回到了风景宜人的南方老家。老家清新的空气和闲散的生活让两个疲惫的城市人感到十分的新奇,而在这靓丽的风景之下,原住民们对这对初来乍到的夫妻却并不能算得上友好。
秉着息事宁人的态度,大卫对来自外界的种种歧视选择了默默忍受,甚至在妻子被一名当地的建筑工人设计强暴之后,他也只是希望能够大事化小小事化了。可是,大卫的一味忍让换来的却是变本加厉的欺负,当一群“野蛮人”试图闯入他家时,曾经懦弱的大卫选择了拿起武器,为了保卫自己最后的家园而战。。广西新民歌大会是由广西广播电视台制作播出的新民歌实景创演秀电视节目。。