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.。四个大学生来到大屿山攀登,夜晚借宿于山间的一座寺庙,学生们在一名小和尚(张国荣 饰)的招待下,与寺内大师聊了一夜,发现出家人与世人的生活原来很不同。前来游玩的四人只想攀登山的高峰,而出家人追求的是攀登佛理的高峰;出家人想要看破红尘,而大学生们只想要看红日;当男女们在海滩野餐时,主持则在说禅,这一动一静之间,出家人和世人的境界对比鲜明。第二天一早,学生们便离开寺庙继续旅程,而在门前清扫的小和尚,只是微笑目送,心间仿佛拈花有悟……
《沙之城》属于《岛的故事》电视剧系列第三集。。