10/8/2023 0 Comments Wild at heart 1990 european cutThe audience at its maiden screening here (or was it just the Americans?) were howling.Ĭage, one of the most daring actors of his generation, has created a character here as interestingly offbeat as his other parolee in “Raising Arizona” and the faux vampire in last year’s “Vampire’s Kiss.” Cage plays a good-hearted but short-tempered petty thief who wears a snakeskin jacket, talks and sings like Elvis Presley, and wears his heart on his sleeve. Lynch calls the film a “violent comedy,” and he’s got it right. Laura Dern, who plays a hipper version of the small-town optimist that she played in “Blue Velvet,” isolates the theme of “Wild at Heart” when she tells her parolee boyfriend Sailor (Nicolas Cage) that “The world is wild at heart and weird on top.” In David Lynch’s world, of course, it is pretty weird all the way through.īut the same tone of absurdity that made “Blue Velvet” a jolt and “Twin Peaks” a joy are turned up to full volume in “Wild at Heart,” which is scheduled for release in the United States by the Samuel Goldwyn Co. Those few people who can pat themselves on the back for “getting” Lynch’s offbeat sense of humor in the cult films “Eraserhead” and “Blue Velvet” have been joined by millions of TV viewers who have rallied around Lynch’s series “Twin Peaks.” And if “Wild at Heart” survives the ratings process without serious damage, his growing army of fans have a treat coming. The leavening factor of “Wild at Heart” is that it is also Lynch’s funniest film.
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