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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.。一部电影的力量究竟有多大？甚至可以使人牺牲生命？导演泰米妮米兰妮因本片遭伊朗宗教法庭以教唆叛乱罪起诉，直至国际名导科波拉等人集体连署上书政府高层，方获保释。而现实中的戏剧性政治嘲谑，亦如影片拍摄主题：原本生活无虑的法官夫人，因为先生奉命审理女政治犯的死刑上诉案件，开始面对尘封已久的过往，理想、自由与爱情，透过自白书与今昔岁月的交错叙述，不但揭开了过去的神秘面纱，也展开一趟政治的同时也是私领域的探险与革命。。