Released a mere months after the iconic Twin Peaks hit TV screens, the film is the most measured and closest to ‘conventional’ that the prolific Lynch has ever crafted, and that honour will likely remain intact for the rest of his working career. The unashamedly stylish, ‘Rock and Roll’ film weds many a cultural nod to stellar performances from an exceptional cast to tell the story of Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and his love, Lula Fortune (Laura Dern) who is, in the oddball, surrealist fashion synonymous with the director, are pursued by hired goon’s set on their tale by the disapproving mother of Lula, a woman out to stop the inexplicable powers of the world’s strongest emotion.Īdapting Barry Gifford’s novel of the same name (with a few, slight changes), Wild at Heart is, in my opinion at least, the perfect starting point for anybody unfamiliar with the American director.
A middlingly received yet critically well-regarded film, Wild at Heart is – for me, at least – one of David Lynch’s finest works of all time.
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