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325 Rideau St. Ottawa K1N 5Y4
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Lost Highway
Print this pageMust-See Cinema! Nothing says 'WTF?!' like a David Lynch film!
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One of the most artistically adventurous American movies this side of Hitchcock’s Psycho. Lost Highway begins in the arid day-to-day world of an anonymous couple, Fred and Renée (Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette). Like Psycho, it ‘changes identities’ partway through. Lynch – in a dreamy shift of narrative gears that is his trademark – actually causes the hero to physically transform from one human being into another.
Fred finds himself on death row for the murder of Renée – a killing we never see, and which he doesn’t remember committing. Suddenly, in a flash orchestrated by an enigmatic demon, Fred vanishes into thin air and is replaced in his cell by an eighteen-year-old delinquent named Pete (Balthazar Getty), who has no idea how he got there and no connection of any kind with the missing Fred. Accelerating the strangeness, Pete is drawn into an illicit love affair with Alice (again, Patricia Arquette) who may be Renée’s twin sister, or – given the movie’s upside-down-cake logic – may be Renée herself. Anything’s possible.
Lynch has landed us in storytelling territory so weird and new that a more precise plot synopsis would probably be incoherent. The point seems to be (as it would be, in any private nightmare that you or I might have) that there are some truths that can’t be articulated, only demonstrated in image and action. This is the principle that drives all dreams, all drama, all forms of art. A work of art is what Lynch has brought off here.
– F.X. Feeney, LA Weekly
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