![]() ![]() The central duo of Sailor (pre-embarrassing Nicolas Cage) and Lula (reliable Lynch muse Laura Dern) are a cartoon of a teenage Elvis and a teenage Marilyn on a road trip through a hellish deep south, from “somewhere near the border between North and South Carolina” to New Orleans and on to a small nowhere town in Texas that is so horrific you pray it’s fictional, which it is. Yes, a case could be made that Wild at Heart should stay buried. It could probably do with being rescued from history. ![]() And yet, while we’re all waist-deep in Twin Peaks nostalgia, looking excitedly and maybe a little nervously towards its unlikely return in 2016, spare a thought for the Lynch film that was Twin Peaks’ exact contemporary. Even Dune has its fans, but Wild at Heart? That seems less loved. Will it really be 25 years in May since David Lynch’s Wild at Heart won big at Cannes, nabbing no less than the Palme d’Or? Amazing but true, and yet the film that was briefly Lynch’s most feted, now seems to be his most forgotten. How does David Lynch’s Wild at Heart look, 25 years later? ![]()
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