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.。科林(安德烈·杜索里埃 André Dussollier 饰)和凯瑟琳(萨宾·阿泽玛 Sabine Azéma 饰)是一对戏剧爱好者,在两人排练新戏期间,他们收到了一个惊人的消息,那就是他们共同的好友乔治(安德烈·杜索里埃 André Dussollier 饰)患上了不治之症,时日无多了。 乔治生病的消息让凯瑟琳的内心感到非常的复杂,因为她曾经和乔治之间有过一段不能公之于众的隐秘恋情。除了凯瑟琳外,乔治的前女友塔玛拉(桑德利那·吉贝尔兰 Sandrine Kiberlain 饰)于他的前妻莫妮卡都不约而同的回到了乔治的身边,三个女人虽然现在都名花有主,但她们都想成为那个能够陪伴乔治走完人生最后道路的人。。