Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette star in this wierd and mysterious thriller that sends neo-noir into surreal territory, a film that defies literal explanation but has a haunting emotional and thematic logic to it.
David Lynch’s debut feature is grim, disturbed, mutated, claustrophobic, and unlike anything that had been made before it. It’s his original nightmare world.
David Lynch’s surreal murder mystery / soap opera changed our ideas of what kinds of stories and storytelling was possible on television years before cable created the new prestige TV era.
