BURNING 'DESIRE'

Literary and reliant much more on emotion than on plot, DESIRE (1993, Academy, unrated, $89.95) is the kind of movie that used to be called a woman's picture. After a rather sluggish beginning, partially due to the density of its voice-over narration, Desire soon becomes affecting as it tells of a mismatched but fiercely felt love affair over the years between an intellectual (Greta Scacchi) and a simple but intense Scottish fisherman (a very believable Vincent D'Onofrio). Rapturously romantic yet grounded in reality, the movie uniquely captures the rapture of chemical attraction-and the downside once desire is done. B+

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