![]() ![]() Why compare them at all? Mostly because I find it so hard to make sense of the movie by itself. Wild at Heart palpably lacks the unnerving controlthe distinctive, pleasure-painful combination of tense, febrile images with hypercharged narrative scenariosthat abounds in Blue Velvet and later in Mulholland Drive, those most prototypically "Lynchian" of Lynchian films. If it's already sounding as though Wild at Heart, even in its differences, lives largely in the shadow of Lynch's prior vision of warped Americana, that's hardly an accident. In fact, Dern's Lula, with her eccentric, relentless carnality and her strangely divided reactions to her own suffering, feels more reminiscent of Isabella Rossellini's Blue Velvet character than of Dern's own. Sailor is emphatically more oddball, more animal, less sheltered than the Kyle MacLachlan character in Blue Velvet, and Laura Dern is playing an obviously more capacious spirit than the one she contributed to the same, earlier film. Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, the lead characters played by Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, bear the chromosomal residue not only of American pop archetypes (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando) but also of previous Lynch creations. These descriptions to David Lynch's 1990 Palme d'Or winner, apt though they may be, as though they were epithets. When you call your film Wild at Heart, you're hardly hedging your bets about tonal excess, broad characterization, or extreme circumstance. © 1990 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Propaganda Films My own American madness.Įspecially as Lynch has emerged as such a stingy visitor to this medium he's mastered, even his more awkward vehicles (this and Lost Highway) show and tell us a lot. I rewatch this every few years, as if it'll cohere more, or I'll like it more, or less. Some vivid moments but the whole disappoints. The film isn't as seductive a puzzle a Lynch's others. ![]() Screenplay: David Lynch (based on the novel by Barry Gifford). Grace Zabriskie, Calvin Lockhart, Marvin Kaplan, John Lurie, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Freddie Jones. Freeman, Crispin Glover, Sherilyn Fenn, Isabella Rossellini, Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, J.E. ![]() First screened and reviewed in March 2002 / Most recently screened in August 2016ĭirector: David Lynch. ![]()
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