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Cast Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe.

Screening as part of our summer series The Films of David Lynch! After Sailor is released from prison for murdering a man in self-defence, he and Lula embark on a sex-filled, rocking road trip, aware all the time that they are being hunted by Marietta’s cronies. In this case, fate is Lula’s mother, Marietta Fortune a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. An ex-con (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) and his fiery lover (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) meet many bizarre characters while fleeing from her psychotic mother. 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.Sailor and Lula are two lovers struggling to remain together even when fate seems intent on keeping them apart. Academy Award nominated director David Lynch presents this Southern Gothic masterpiece about love on the run. 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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