Desert Hearts
Desert Hearts is a 1985 lesbianthemed romantic drama film loosely based on the Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart. Directed by Donna Deitch, the film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley.
Vivian meets Cay Rivvers Charbonneau, a younger, freespirited sculptor to whom Frances is a surrogate mother. Cay works at a casino as a change operator in Reno, and is ending a relationship with Darrell, her boss, because as she put it, she allowed herself to be attracted to his attraction for her. When Vivian arrives, Cay notices her immediately, and tightly controlled and elegant Vivian, in turn, is taken aback by yet strangely attracted to Cays boldness and lack of concern of what others think of her and also of her romanticsexual preferences. Cay reveals that she has had relationships with women in the past. Frances jealously notices that Vivian is becoming a bigger and bigger part of Cays life, and resents her for it, afraid that Cay will leave her and the ranch, and she will be left alone. Frances sees Cay as her only family, even though Cay is not her actual child, but rather the daughter of Frances man Glenn who has been dead several years.When everyone attends an engagement party for Cays best friend and coworker, Silver, Cay drives a drunken Vivian to see Lake Tahoe afterwards and kisses her. Vivian returns the kiss passionately and is so surprised by her response to Cays advance that she begs Cay to take her home. When they return to the ranch in the early morning, Frances has Vivians bags and a taxi waiting for her, furious and wrongfully assuming that she has seduced Cay. Cay leaves the ranch immediately, and Vivian takes a room at a casino hotel for the rest of her stay. ........
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