Lost Highway (1997)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake
Synopsis:
A saxophonist meets a strange man who makes him butcher his wife; while on death row he fuses with the body of a car mechanic whose life in turn becomes embroiled with the same people: police, underworld, femme fatale, mystery man...
Review:
Lynch picks up the characters and spirits of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks more or less where the latter threatened to veer into incoherence, hence the impossibility of actually synopsizing this film. If you want an explanation then this is not the movie for you, though a decidedly un-American loss of faith in the integrality of the self, not to mention narrative linearity, would seem to lie at the heart of it. Leaving aside the intellectual stuff, Lynch's command of interiors, sound, colour, filmic effects such as reverse motion and all the rest, makes for gripping viewing, though the Pulp Fiction-y story of the second half cannot match the unease of the first.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake
Synopsis:
A saxophonist meets a strange man who makes him butcher his wife; while on death row he fuses with the body of a car mechanic whose life in turn becomes embroiled with the same people: police, underworld, femme fatale, mystery man...
Review:
Lynch picks up the characters and spirits of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks more or less where the latter threatened to veer into incoherence, hence the impossibility of actually synopsizing this film. If you want an explanation then this is not the movie for you, though a decidedly un-American loss of faith in the integrality of the self, not to mention narrative linearity, would seem to lie at the heart of it. Leaving aside the intellectual stuff, Lynch's command of interiors, sound, colour, filmic effects such as reverse motion and all the rest, makes for gripping viewing, though the Pulp Fiction-y story of the second half cannot match the unease of the first.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake
Synopsis:
A saxophonist meets a strange man who makes him butcher his wife; while on death row he fuses with the body of a car mechanic whose life in turn becomes embroiled with the same people: police, underworld, femme fatale, mystery man...
Review:
Lynch picks up the characters and spirits of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks more or less where the latter threatened to veer into incoherence, hence the impossibility of actually synopsizing this film. If you want an explanation then this is not the movie for you, though a decidedly un-American loss of faith in the integrality of the self, not to mention narrative linearity, would seem to lie at the heart of it. Leaving aside the intellectual stuff, Lynch's command of interiors, sound, colour, filmic effects such as reverse motion and all the rest, makes for gripping viewing, though the Pulp Fiction-y story of the second half cannot match the unease of the first.