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Fred Madison, a saxophonist, is accused under mysterious circumstances of murdering his wife Renee. On death row, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton, leading a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross in a surreal, suspenseful web of intrigue, orchestrated by a shady gangster boss named Dick Laurent.
Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's fear is compounded when he meets a mysterious man (Robert Blake) at a flamboyant party. Fred wakes up to discover that Renee has been murdered, and Fred is convicted of the crime. Trouble is, he doesn't remember anything from that night. Sitting in a jail cell, he undergoes a miraculous transformation, waking up as Pete D...
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ayton (Balthazar Getty), a young mechanic. When Pete meets a dangerous client's sexy girlfriend, Alice Wakefield (a blonde Arquette), a passionate affair blossoms that threatens to expose Pete.
In typical Lynch fashion, he makes no effort whatsoever to explain his film or justify its bizarre occurrences, resulting in an enigmatic thriller that feels like the viewer has unknowingly walked into another person's dream. The screenplay adheres to many universal film noir conventions, but Lynch and co-screenwriter Barry Gifford's psychological angle gives them a freedom to do anything that they so desire (a concept they giddily embrace). For fans of surreal, visually arresting cinema, Lynch delivers once again.
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De centrale figuur in deze hallucinante film is Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), een saxofonist wiens huwelijk met Renee Madison (Patricia Arquette) bol staat van onuitgesproken spanningen. Die lopen nog hoger op wanneer ze anonieme videocassettes op hun stoep vinden, iets of iemand begluurt het huis en de bewoners. Op een van die cassettes zien we hoe Fred zijn vrouw vermoordt, ter dood wordt veroordeeld en in de dodencel terechtkomt.
Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but fashionably barren house with his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). Fred suspects that Renee may be unfaithful to him, but realizes he has bigger things to worry about when a series of videotapes appear at his door that prove someone is watching his home from the outside and inside. When Renee is found murdered, Fred find...
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s himself behind bars, but one morning Fred is no longer in his cell. He has seemingly been transformed into Pete Drayton (Balthazar Getty), a young auto mechanic who foolishly allowed himself to get involved with the wife of gangster Dick Laurent (Robert Loggia), a luscious blonde named Alice who looks exactly like Renee.
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What would 21-year-old Ozarks boys, and a blond high-school girl from Columbus, Ohio, think of his techno album? David Lynch wanted to know. Bobby Ampezzan hit the roadWhat comes to mind when I think of David Lynch ? I came to his oeuvre late, having seen only bits of Dune as a boy and nothing at all of Twin Peaks . Later, horny and pimply, I'd heard about then rented Lost Highway – three times I paused that movie, then napped. At university, I saw The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive in the theatre, and Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart , and thought, meh. I am not a fan, but I fancy his semiotics, his use of signs and symbols that ask you to ask yourself: what comes to mind …?Lynch has a new album of techno, Crazy Clown Time. At his request, I hiked up the highway to the heart of the Ozarks region,
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