Vachon Has Dreams of a Dying Heart

Does Christine Vachon take breaks? Ever?

Since helping jumpstart the "New Queer Cinema" in the early 1990s with Todd Haynes' debut feature Poison, the lesbian producer has tirelessly brought groundbreaking film after groundbreaking film to art-house theaters and beyond, breaking into mall multiplexes with the kind of success track record most big studio execs would envy...if they thought more about quality than opening-weekend grosses.

Now, following her latest critically acclaimed project, Haynes' I’m Not There, comes Dreams of a Dying Heart.

From first-time screenwriter Martin Lawrence Otto, the story concerns a female helicopter pilot shot down in Iraq.

It's a risky proposition, considering the lackluster box-office of this fall's batch of war-themed movies.

But if anyone can pick a project to break that losing streak, it's Vachon and her unerring good taste.