![]() Lynch has never been accused of subtlety or straightforwardness, and here, he ramps up the baroque extravagance and pop culture pastiche to a fever pitch, somehow keeping aloft all the spinning plates of excess and scenery-chewing. Oh yeah, it’s a circus.īut oh, what an entertaining circus it is. ![]() Crispin Glover has an unforgettable cameo as a madman with roaches in his underpants. Most memorably, there’s the greasy, squirm-inducing thug Bobby Peru, played by Willem Dafoe with gleefully trashy relish and teeth that look like they’ve been chewing on a mix of cancerous beef jerky and cinderblocks. There’s the gimpy hired assassin Juana Durango and her bleach-blonde daughter, Perdita (Grace Zabriskie and Isabella Rosselini). There are also not one, but two sinister crime bosses with ties to both Sailor and Marietta (J.E. Guided by Marietta, his instructions are to kill Sailor and bring Lula back home to mommy. After Sailor finishes a stint in jail for the skull-splitting murder of a man Marietta hired to kill him, he and Lula seek escape and take to the road to find happiness together, pursued by Marietta’s ostensible boyfriend, private detective Johnnie Farragut (Harry Dean Stanton). Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, a young couple drenched in their love for each other, much to the dismay of Marietta, Lula’s crazed harridan of a mother, played by Diane Ladd. Based on the novel by Barry Gifford, and co-written by Gifford and Lynch, all of this rolls into a singular whole that is as divisive in its eccentricities as it is invigorating in its flamboyant energy. An extravagant mix of pop culture theatrics, vivid sex and violence, and sly, twisted humor, Wild at Heart touches on many of Lynch’s favored themes and visual signatures: dark secrets and self-conscious weirdness, sudden bursts of brutality and lip-synching, close-ups of matches and fire, and physically disabled supporting characters. ![]() In the dark circus of David Lynch’s feature films, none of his work occupies quite the same ring as his 1990 Palme d’Or winner Wild at Heart. ![]()
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