rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1990
Directed by David Lynch; produced by Steve Golin, Monty Montgomery, Sigurjon Sighvatsson; screenplay by David Lynch
Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
If you watched this movie without knowing anything about it and without any
credits and you had to guess the director you would probably guess right.
David Lynch makes strange movies. Sometimes they are very good ('The
Elephant Man', 'The Straight Story' and in my opinion 'Blue Velvet' and
'Mulholland Dr.') but even the good ones are strange in a way. I am not sure
about 'Wild at Heart'. There were parts I liked and there were parts I
didn't like so much.
To write a review about a movie like this (which won the Golden Palm in
Cannes and had one Oscar nomination for Diane Ladd, a supporting character)
is not easy. The story is about Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern)
who are on a road trip after Sailor is released from prison. It drives
Lula's mother (Ladd) crazy to know that her daughter is with Sailor and
therefor she hires some guys to kill him. We see Isabella Rossellini, Harry
Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, J.E. Freeman and Willem Dafoe as supporting
characters and they seem to be even more crazy than the mother of Lula.
Every scene has a moment where you realize how weird the movie is, even the
good scenes. I understand if you like it a lot, I enjoyed it. It is
definitely not for everyone but if you like other Lynch-movies, Nicolas
Cage, Laura Dern or movies that are very different you might like this one.