Flaunting their passion for each other at every opportunity. The story is about firecracker lovebirds, Lula (Laura Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage). The cheers were swamped that day, but critics have certainly warmed to it over the years. There were boos and heckles when Lynch took to the stage. And just in time for the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, where Wild at Heart was the unprecedented recipient of the illustrious Palme d’Or. Lynch made a slight change, but nothing drastic. The journey was rocky, even when the film was finished, as many walked out of the first test screenings. Adapted by Lynch from the book by Barry Gifford (which he has literally just completed), the filmmaker relished an exuberant, nuclear depiction of underbelly America. In a short film this very reviewer made in 1995, the extreme close-up of a lit cigarette glow was a blatant rip-off. Coated in fire, from the opening titles, through the striking of matches, to a flashback of a flame-engulfed fatality. Shocking, energetic, provocative, Wild at Heart is a bombastic ride. So he was the master of television strange, non? And by then, his TV hit Twin Peaks was making the rounds. Or is it? Not everyone’s cup of tea for sure, Lynch had two projects slip away from him, before Wild at Heart came along. Master of the cinematic strange, David Lynch, struggled to make a film after 1986’s cult classic, Blue Velvet.
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