9/21/2023 0 Comments Wild at Heart (1990) 9![]() ![]() Plus, genuine weirdness abounds to satisfy Lynch die-hards. ![]() It's a minor quibble of course, there's more than enough on display here to fill 100 movies. The soundtrack mixes Elvis and kung-fu style metal, invents Chris Isaak along with some great work from Angelo Badalamenti.ĭespite the introduction of Dafoe as the rotten toothed and slimy Bobby Peru, Lynch's abrupt end to the films road movie sequences zaps all the energy. Isabella Rossellini's face has never been so well captured. Crispin Glover's cameo and Sherilyn Fenn's car crash victim live long in the memory. It's also strong visually, with many stand-out shots and a great use of color. Two thirds of this picture is so on the money, it's almost intensely faultless. Great support from Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton and Willem Dafoe means that Wild At Heart is one of the most character-built Lynch movies. Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage (as Lula and Sailor) exude a certain empty chemistry that really works in the film's favor. Violence, sex, Rock 'n Roll, The Wizard of Oz and an obsession with the 1950's iconography run through Wild At Heart, the energy on screen is breathtaking. Astrid's latest pick of her favorite films is Lynch's Wild At Heart, often overlooked nowadays when compared to say Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart in some ways encapsulates all the aspects of Lynch's cinema, the good and the bad, all in one handy bundle. I see David Lynch as cinema's version of the Captain, always pushing the envelope, yet each frame of his films undeniably his work. Not just for some of the great records he made, but also for the attitude behind his music. Captain Beefheart ( Don Van Vliet ) passed away a couple of days ago. ![]()
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