卢卡·佛洛瑞从小在非洲长大,父亲经常出差,留下年幼的他和母亲寂寞思念,一日母亲丧身汽车轮下,目睹惨剧发生的卢卡从此心中埋下阴影。成年后的卢卡回到意大利,成了知名爵士钢琴家,融合非洲元素的爵士乐令他大受欢迎,更扬名国际,但是人前的荣耀并不能治愈他人后的伤痛,卢卡始终无法敞开心扉向任何人,更和整个世界保持冷漠和梳理,令他内心情绪走向一个恶性循环。随着年纪增大,对母亲的负罪感逐渐填满了他的生活,他的音乐里被深藏了许多痛苦,但最终连音乐都无法承载这一切,在38岁时,他灌录了最后一首独奏作品《能飞得多远》后,选择悬梁结束自己的生命……
本片根据“意大利爵士钢琴诗人”卢卡佛洛瑞的生平传记改编。。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.。