Blue Velvet (1986)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 120m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell
Synopsis:
Lumberton, a sleepy US everytown, is home to every human depravity besides the traditional goodliness. Young Jeffrey Beaumont finds himself drawn towards the evil undercurrent when he comes across a severed human ear.
Review:
Lynch's first film set in a contemporary America, this is also the one which most clearly prefigures the Twin Peaks phenomenon, though the theme of hidden violence was already a familiar one, notably in the work of Alfred Hitchcock, whose Rear Window this riffs on. It possesses a weird fascination due to its music, decors and Hopper's superheated performance, and the action occasionally pauses for the director's strokes of visual/aural expressionism. Undoubtedly one of the key American films of the 80s.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 120m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell
Synopsis:
Lumberton, a sleepy US everytown, is home to every human depravity besides the traditional goodliness. Young Jeffrey Beaumont finds himself drawn towards the evil undercurrent when he comes across a severed human ear.
Review:
Lynch's first film set in a contemporary America, this is also the one which most clearly prefigures the Twin Peaks phenomenon, though the theme of hidden violence was already a familiar one, notably in the work of Alfred Hitchcock, whose Rear Window this riffs on. It possesses a weird fascination due to its music, decors and Hopper's superheated performance, and the action occasionally pauses for the director's strokes of visual/aural expressionism. Undoubtedly one of the key American films of the 80s.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 120m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell
Synopsis:
Lumberton, a sleepy US everytown, is home to every human depravity besides the traditional goodliness. Young Jeffrey Beaumont finds himself drawn towards the evil undercurrent when he comes across a severed human ear.
Review:
Lynch's first film set in a contemporary America, this is also the one which most clearly prefigures the Twin Peaks phenomenon, though the theme of hidden violence was already a familiar one, notably in the work of Alfred Hitchcock, whose Rear Window this riffs on. It possesses a weird fascination due to its music, decors and Hopper's superheated performance, and the action occasionally pauses for the director's strokes of visual/aural expressionism. Undoubtedly one of the key American films of the 80s.