• |
  • |
  • |
  • |
Go

Lost Highway, 1997

Lost Highway

English

France, USA

Rating:7.6
jinni

Profile of Lost Highway

The mood of Lost Highway is atmospheric, mind bending, and sexual. The plot centers around voyeurism, mistaken identities, and a crumbling marriage. It is a drama and mystery movie. Stylistically, Lost Highway is nonlinear, is experimental, and is neo-noir. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Lost Highway happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being controversial. Note that it includes violent content.

Summary of Lost Highway

Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's fear is compounded when he meets a mysterious man (Robert Blake) at a flamboyant party. Fred wakes up to discover that Renee has been murdered, and Fred is convicted of the crime. Trouble is, he doesn't remember anything from that night. Sitting in a jail cell, he undergoes a miraculous transformation, waking up as Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), a young mechanic. When Pete meets a dangerous client's sexy girlfriend, Alice Wakefield (a blonde Arquette), a passionate affair blossoms that threatens to expose Pete.
In typical Lynch fashion, he makes no effort whatsoever to explain his film or justify its bizarre occurrences, resulting in an enigmatic thriller that feels like the viewer has unknowingly walked into another person's dream. The screenplay adheres to many universal film noir conventions, but Lynch and co-screenwriter Barry Gifford's psychological angle gives them a freedom to do anything that they so desire (a concept they giddily embrace). For fans of surreal, visually arresting cinema, Lynch delivers once again.

Details

Language: English
Country: France, USA
Release date: 21 February 1997
Runtime: 135 min

Cast and Crew

Bill Pullman as Fred Madison in Lost Highway
Bill Pullman

as Fred Madison

Patricia Arquette as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield in Lost Highway
Patricia Arquette

as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield

Photos

Lost Highway (1997)
Lost Highway (1997)
Lost Highway (1997)
Lost Highway (1997)

Clips

Lost Highway
Lost Highway: It Wasn't You
Lost Highway
Lost Highway: How I Met Dick
Lost Highway
Lost Highway: I'm At Your House
Lost Highway
Lost Highway: Get A Driver's Manual

Critics Reviews

Variety
Although uneven and too deliberately obscure in meaning to be entirely satisfying, result remains sufficiently intriguing and startling to bring many of Lynch's old fans back on board for this careening ride.
  • |
  • by: Todd McCarthy
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a weird movie, in that spooky/sicko, deadpan way that Lynch's movies always are, and it's guaranteed to repel anyone who likes entertainment wrapped in tidy resolutions and optimistic fade- outs.
  • |
  • by: Edward Guthmann

Users Reviews

A terrible piece of work. No logic, poor acting, poor camera work. THEN the put the movie on full screen chopping off important parts of many scenes. Could not figure out why anyone would spend the money to make this awful film. We finally just...
  • 21.May.2010
  • |
  • by: tom28734
  • tom28734 rated this movie0/10
Not a good movie. I know it's David Lynch but that's no excuse to make a crappy movie with no plot. Half the dialogue is throwaway and what remains never goes anywhere. Anyone who pretends to understand this movie is full of s*it.
  • 23.July.2009
  • |
  • by: Dave
  • Dave rated this movie2/10Bad
Likely to see
Not for me

Jinni is best for now in Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and 8, and Chrome

Part of the page Copyright © Muze | New Releases by Tribune Media Services.

Copyright 2010 Jinni Inc.
jinni message message message
jinni
jinni

smart offbeat funny

In: movies

Copy and paste this link into an email or instant message:

Send this page by email