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Lost Highway (1997)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:21
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette).... Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's fear is compounded when he meets a mysterious man (Robert Blake) at a flamboyant party. Fred wakes up to discover that Renee has been murdered, and Fred is convicted of the crime. Trouble is, he doesn't remember anything from that night. Sitting in a jail cell, he undergoes a miraculous transformation, waking up as Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), a young mechanic. When Pete meets a dangerous client's sexy girlfriend, Alice Wakefield (a blonde Arquette), a passionate affair blossoms that threatens to expose Pete. In typical Lynch fashion, he makes no effort whatsoever to explain his film or justify its bizarre occurrences, resulting in an enigmatic thriller that feels like the viewer has unknowingly walked into another person's dream. The screenplay adheres to many universal film noir conventions, but Lynch and co-screenwriter Barry Gifford's psychological angle gives them a freedom to do anything that they so desire (a concept they giddily embrace). For fans of surreal, visually arresting cinema, Lynch delivers once again. [More]
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Richard Pryor, Lucy Butler, Jack Nance, Michael Massee, Jack Kehler, Henry Rollins, Giovanni Ribisi, Scott Coffey
Director: David Lynch
Director: David Lynch
Screenwriter: David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Producer: Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg, Mary Sweeney
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Reviews for Lost Highway
The film begins promisingly, when a young couple get paranoid over intrusions into their privacy, before turning into a bizarre yarn that viewers will find confusing; Lynch takes one character to the end of the line, then sets another on parallel track.
Continues David Lynch's efforts to make us connoisseurs of mystery rather than robots of reason.
It's one of the downright spookiest films I've ever seen, and it gives me chills just to recall it.
It's pensive male anxiety, and for some cultural reason it's easier for audiences to accept female hysteria than the insecurities of men.
Director David Lynch, the master of creepiness, is back with a femme fatale film that's sinister, disquieting and deliberately obscure.
With the hindsight of Mulholland Dr, the film is a lot more intelligible, with plenty of Lynchian themes in full blossom and a handful of excellent performances.
The Man With No Eyebrows will go down in my books as the single greatest fictitious creation of all time.
Ambicioso do ponto de vista narrativo e fotografado de forma sombriamente evocativa, o filme merece créditos por acreditar na inteligência do espectador, mas acaba parecendo um exercício para o superior Cidade dos Sonhos.
Here, the road leads nowhere in particular; what you pay for is the ride.
What Lost Highway lacks in originality--compared to the rest of Lynch's oeuvre--it regains when compared to anyone else's films.
Its demented darkness actually coallesces into a strange kind of giddy joy - not unlike the rush of adrenaline one feels after a brush with danger.
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