'Can you love a complete stranger?'
A woman tries to kill herself and ends up in the hospital. She escapes and wanders into the desert. There she comes upon a roadside bar where she gets extremely drunk with the locals and a mysterious man, who seems to be shy of policemen.
She wakes up in bed with the stranger, not remembering much from the night before, in a nearby abandoned house and finds out that she got married to him at the bar. They try and find an answer to their lives and love in this isolated nowhere.
Like so many films from the 80's and 90's, it can be hard to find decent copies. I don't know if 1989's Warm Summer Rain ever got an HD release, but at least there was a DVD. When I first rented the VHS many years ago, I re-watched Barry Tubb's love scenes with Kelly Lynch over and over, without really appreciating the tragic beauty of the story.
Watching it again last week, had me noticing the beautiful camera work and cinematography and understanding the characters for the first time. This often happens with many movies I saw as a kid, especially when I originally watched them just for the male skin. The skin is still there, maybe less than I remember, but skin, sex, passion and pain are at the core of Warm Summer Rain.
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