Lost Highway Review
Another extreme exploration of the darkness within, Lost Highway (1997) marked David_Lynch's cinematic and artistic comeback after Twin_Peaks:_Fire_Walk_With_Me (1992). A bold move away from typical Hollywood narrative, Lynch and co-writer Barry_Gifford craft a quintessentially Lynch-ian mind game of multiple identities, heroes, villains, and femme fatales that defies conventional space and time. Spiked with such evocative film noir images as a highway at night and a burning cabin, Lost Highway's tale of jealousy, murder, and retribution becomes the ultimate noir fever dream of sexual terror, yearning, and violence, yet Lynch still finds a hopeful space for woozy romance between Balthazar_Getty and Natasha_Gregson_Wagner. Even as the story flies out of control (though Robert_Blake's disturbing "Mystery Man" seems to know all the answers), Lost Highway remains a sound/image tour de force, particularly in the ultra-moody first half before the cacophony explodes in the second half. Making its perversity the prime attraction, Lost Highway's ads trumpeted its two thumbs down from mainstream critics Roger_Ebert and Gene_Siskel; Lynch's next film, The_Straight_Story (1999), however, precisely lived up to its title. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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