Lost Highway
Lost Highway (1997)

‘Lost Highway’ (1997). Movie Review

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Lost Highway is a 1997 film starring Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty and Patricia Arquette. Pure David Lynch style and narrative.

You may like it or you might loathe it, but with Lost Highway, David Lynch proves that he is one of the most personal directors in the history of cinema.

We reiterate: like it or not.

Carretera Perdida (Lost Highway), Película de 1997
Lost Highway (1997)

Storyline

It follows the story of a man accused of murdering his wife. The man seems to change body and personality, on a road of no return to the boundaries of… nothing.

Movie Review

To say that it is scattered is like saying nothing: it is an incoherence sought but not found (it will go further). The film is a madness that ends up trapping us in visual and stylistic suggestion.

Yes, sometimes this guy gets repetitive from being so original, but he is always refreshing in his way of making us see a film each time and, on each occasion, we still can’t quite “get the point” because he eludes logic (that’s precisely what it’s all about).

Worth highlighting is the amalgam of artistic styles present and the good (or bad, for some) taste in the compositions.

Very artistic, delicious and delirious.

Our Opinion

We are not going to deceive you: we love this guy even though we would not let him look after our house: he makes a style rule out of incoherence; and of the pictorial and musical, a very different way of making cinema.

And we like what is different.

Movie Trailer

Lost Highway (1997)
Carretera Perdida (Lost Highway), Película de 1997

Movie title: Lost Highway

Movie description: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Date published: November 30, 2020

Country: United States

Duration: 134 mins

Author: Martin Cid

Director(s): David Lynch

Writer(s): David Lynch, Barry Gifford

Cinematography: Peter Deming

Music: Angelo Badalamenti

Actor(s): Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty, Patricia Arquette, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake, Gary Busey, John Roselius, Michael Massee, Richard Pryor, Louis Eppolito, Jack Nance

Genre: Thriller

Companies: Asymetrical Production, Ciby 2000, October Films

Our Opinion

We are not going to deceive you: we love this guy even though we would not let him look after our house: he makes a style rule out of incoherence; and of the pictorial and musical, a very different way of making cinema.

Overall
4

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