Wild at Heart (1990)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe
Synopsis:
Passionate adventures of a wild young couple who just want to love each other, except that her mother has a contract out on him.
Review:
The 'strange world' adumbrated in Blue Velvet is further explored here, with its rather less easily shocked lovers characterising it as 'wild at heart and weird on top'. Nostalgic songs as before, fairytale phantasmagoria from The Wizard of Oz, black humour and absurd violence make for a heady and noisy brew likely to draw a giggle from the uninitiated. Alternatively those put off by the visceral mayhem and raw sex on display may find the shamelessly romantic worldview hard to take. For those happy few in between, however, this was further evidence of a stunningly original talent, even if, as was about to be confirmed by Twin Peaks, there was oft more style than substance.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe
Synopsis:
Passionate adventures of a wild young couple who just want to love each other, except that her mother has a contract out on him.
Review:
The 'strange world' adumbrated in Blue Velvet is further explored here, with its rather less easily shocked lovers characterising it as 'wild at heart and weird on top'. Nostalgic songs as before, fairytale phantasmagoria from The Wizard of Oz, black humour and absurd violence make for a heady and noisy brew likely to draw a giggle from the uninitiated. Alternatively those put off by the visceral mayhem and raw sex on display may find the shamelessly romantic worldview hard to take. For those happy few in between, however, this was further evidence of a stunningly original talent, even if, as was about to be confirmed by Twin Peaks, there was oft more style than substance.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe
Synopsis:
Passionate adventures of a wild young couple who just want to love each other, except that her mother has a contract out on him.
Review:
The 'strange world' adumbrated in Blue Velvet is further explored here, with its rather less easily shocked lovers characterising it as 'wild at heart and weird on top'. Nostalgic songs as before, fairytale phantasmagoria from The Wizard of Oz, black humour and absurd violence make for a heady and noisy brew likely to draw a giggle from the uninitiated. Alternatively those put off by the visceral mayhem and raw sex on display may find the shamelessly romantic worldview hard to take. For those happy few in between, however, this was further evidence of a stunningly original talent, even if, as was about to be confirmed by Twin Peaks, there was oft more style than substance.