Stockholm Film Festival

Rocked by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris’s immortal tune, Blue Velvet is a milestone in Lynch’s filmography. Considered by many as his best film, it definitely opens the door to all the things to come. All the elements which will compose Lynch’s future efforts are established here, for the first time as straight forward, as much as it erases a lot of what has been made before.
The script, despite wild and perverse elements, is a rock solid film noir, and the best way one could pick up the trail of Alfred Hitchcock. This is a tale of the loss of innocence, as told in all of his films. It’s got Kyle McLachlan, Laura Dern (who will later be immortalized as Lula) and Isabella Rossellini in the leads. Dean Stockwell gives a performance that could have been set in Twin Peak’s black lodge, and Dennis Hopper is like a pre-incarnation of Bob. Blue Velvet has got the cars, the girls, the flesh, the fetishism of a cinematographic Joseph Beuys, the violence, the perversion and the fantasies o any bored and sick kid growing up in a quiet, almost dead, small town. One of the sanest and best spirited calls for existence ever put on film, this is, along The Elephant Man and The Straight Story, also Lynch’s most approachable movie.
Virgile Iscan-Grangié

Medverkande

Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper,Isabella Rossellini

Producent

Fred Caruso

Manus

David Lynch

Musik

Angelo Badalmenti

Talat språk

English

 

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