Film
Wild At Heart
- Director
- David Lynch
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 119 mins
Cult director David Lynch carries on from where he left off in Blue Velvet, playing 50s genre games in archetypal American setting, with a bizarro cast of cult faves, a mixture of astonishing imagery and ironically presented cliches, and clever twinning of high arthouse style with controversy-invoking sex and violence. Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) are a violently passionate couple on the run from Lula’s monster mom Diane Ladd through a parched roadside America. Willem Dafoe contributes what then ranked as the most loathsome human being in the cinema since Dennis Hopper in the aforementioned Blue Velvet and the whole trip is at once overplotted and dramatically thin, ending in violence, magic and a protracted ambiguous-but-happy ending. A triumph of art-exploitation.
It’s back on screen in the Everyman’s late night classics season
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