![]() 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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