Desert hearts
By: written by Natalie Cooper ; produced and directed by Donna Deitch
Contributors: Shaver, Helen (Helen Jane), 1951- actor; Charbonneau, Patricia, actor; Lindley, Audra, actor; Rule, Jane
Edition: [Director-approved edition].
Series: The Criterion collection -- 902; Criterion collection -- 902.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Drama; Divorce; Film adaptations; Lesbians
Description: Set in the 1950s, a repressed English professor goes to Reno for a quick divorce and while waiting for her papers to finalize, has a passionate affair with a young woman.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.

Based on the novel "Desert of the heart" by Jane Rule.

Mono, wide screen 1.85:1.

Essay by critic B. Ruby Rich in container.

Features: audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; new conversation 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 documentary "Fiction and other truths : a film about Jane Rule" (1995) about the author of "Desert of the heart."

Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles.

MPAA rating: R.

For private home use only.

In English with optional English subtitles.