Stockholm Film Festival

ONE OF THE MOST DISCUSSED FILMS of the late 80s. The young Jeffrey Beaumont makes a macabre find on a wooded hillside. A cut off ear, infested with ants is the preface to an unusual study of society's undervegetation where both sado-masochism and police corruption are everyday routines. Dennis Hopper plays a psychopath who, covered with a laughing-gas mask, rapes the character played by Isabella Rossellini. _
Comment:
BLUE VELVET IS DAVID LYNCH'S breakthrough film, starring Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Kyle Maclachlan, and myself. Dean Stockwell is scarry wonderful in a small part. It's the first American surrealist film. I find it very humorous. Some people are very scared and disturbed by the film, where I find it so evil and so good that it is almost unbearable to watch without laughing.
DENNIS HOPPER

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper,Isabella Rossellini

Producer

Fred Caruso

Script

David Lynch

Cinematography

Frederick Elmes

Music

Angelo Badalmenti

Spoken language

English

 

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