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20 年前
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“他”（艾伦·瑞克曼 Alan Rickman 饰）是伦敦一名默默无闻的图书编辑，经历了写作生涯的惨痛失败后，只能在工作之余写写诗，一边唾弃着他平淡无奇的工作，一边为曾经的失败爱情心怀遗憾，渐入颓唐中年。
“她”（艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰）是“他”的 旧情人，离开他之后嫁给了一位极负盛名的作家，在巴黎过着光鲜滋润的生活。
分开15年后，两人再度相约在以前常去的餐厅共进午餐。满怀期待赴宴的“他”却发现，餐厅已面目全改，曾经熟悉的一切无迹可寻。“她”依然亮丽，却少了他记忆中的样子，食物依旧，话题却不尽人意。这一切只是他沉溺诗歌的幻想，还是他真的已经随着那老去的一切被遗弃了？
本片改编自克里斯托弗·里德（Christopher Reid）的同名叙事诗，诗人携该诗于2010年获柯斯达文学奖（Costa Book Awards）“年度代表作”奖。。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.。
