Surviving Desire

IMDb link: 0103010
IMDb rating: 7.2 (1,955 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley
Cast: Rebecca Nelson, Matt Malloy, Julie Kessler and others

Release date: 17 Dec 1993
Release year: 1992
Runtime: 53 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: hartley and donovan, sex scene, american director, transgression, literature, modern relationships, college professor, melancholy, male body, observation

Plot:

Jude, a college literature professor, falls for one of his students. She is more interested in the empirical experience of a relationship with a man whose life is ruled by the themes of the Russian literature he extols in class. Jude shows an interesting side of the stigmas associated with transgenerational relationships and how to deal with the inevitable pain of a love doomed to failure.

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