''Desert Hearts'' is so earnest and sincere that it deserves an ''A'' for deportment. Vivian lets her hair down, and discovers ecstasy. When, the next morning, Frances suspects the worst and asks Vivian to move to a hotel in town, Vivian feels angry, humiliated, even soiled. Then one night there's a drive into the desert and an innocent kiss. First there are confidences traded while horseback-riding. In ''Desert Hearts,'' which opens today at the Cinema 2, Cay finds Vivian, who, in turn, finds herself. It's not that she's put off by Cay's pottery, which isn't great, but by Cay's unashamedly proclaimed sexual preferences.
Vivian is 35 years old, a handsome, initially icy, well-groomed woman who wants to find herself.Ĭay Rivvers (Patricia Charbonneau) is 25, a pretty, dark-haired free spirit who, by night, works in a Reno casino and, by day, sculpts pottery in a studio-shack on the ''divorce ranch'' owned by Frances (Audra Lindley), her late father's longtime mistress.įrances loves the intensely independent Cay as if she were her own daughter, but she can't approve of Cay's way of life. Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), a professor of English literature at Columbia University, arrives in Reno to divorce her husband, who's also a professor (and who remains safely offscreen throughout the film).
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