![]() ![]() ![]() This road movie come love story follows a young couple, Sailor ( Nicolas Cage) and Lula ( Laura Dern), as they run away from the variety of oddities Lula’s mother Marietta ( Dianne Ladd) has hired to kill Sailor. Incidentally, Lynch's groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks debuted later this same year, and many of that show's actors can be seen in small parts here.David Lynch’s electrically charged, absurdist road movie is Wild at Heart and weird on top.ĭavid Lynch’s Wild at Heart may be one of his lesser-known features, but it stands as a great introduction to his style with its highly intense narrative and splash of absurdism. But for the majority of the movie, Lynch's touch works, and provides a strange, entertaining ride. Lynch also includes some moments of plain weirdness, such as a man talking with a high-pitched voice and another man ( Jack Nance, of Eraserhead) speaking in odd riddles, which only calls attention to itself. Yet Lynch seems to have let his artistic id take over a bit too often, obsessing on both The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley, and trying to shoehorn references into the movie whenever possible - whether they fit or not. Even if they have been the victims of bad luck and made some bad choices, they are worth rooting for, and Cage and Dern are terrific in their roles (especially Dern, whose physicality in this movie is striking). In their scenes together, they seem to truly appreciate each other's nuances and to respect one another. At its core, Wild at Heart is a pretty simple, very good lovers-on-the-run film noir Sailor and Lula are super-cool yet sympathetic characters whose love is never in doubt. David Lynch's adaptation of Barry Gifford's novel contains much of his trademark powerful, nightmarish imagery, even if it also appears that he might have been grasping at straws at times. ![]()
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