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Lost Highway [Region 2]

directed by: David Lynch

: Lost Highway [Region 2]
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0743217310691
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 118474
Theatrical Release Date: February 21, 1997



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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Plot is a meaningless term when trying to describe Lost Highway. Here, more or less, is what happens: A noise-jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) suspects his wife (Patricia Arquette) of infidelity. Meanwhile, someone is breaking into their house and videotaping them while they sleep. The wife is murdered and Pullman is convicted of the crime. Then, in prison, he transmogrifies into a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) who is subsequently released, since, after all, he's not the guy they convicted. Getty goes back to his life and meets a local gangster's moll, who happens to be played by Patricia Arquette... but none of this has much to do with what the movie is really about. Dreams are what intrigues director David Lynch. Not friendly, happy dreams; his dreams whisper that what we think is real is just something we made up, something to keep ourselves from falling into chaos. Characters are fragments. Events happen not because they make sense, but because deep down we want these things to happen. Of course, in Lynch's dreams, as in our waking lives, getting what we want is not always pleasant. In the movie's best moments, you really have no idea what you're seeing. The screen is a big rectangle of color and shadow, but what it represents, well, it could be anything. And yet, in those moments, you've been given just enough hints of place, character, and story that these elusive images elicit a genuine dread, a sense that you might not want to see this, yet you can't look away; a sense that we are living on borrowed time, that something is fiercely askew in our psyches. As a whole, Lost Highway is a failure: much of it is padded, gratuitous, and indulgent and pointless cameos bog down an already sluggish narrative. Yet within that failure are moments worth more than the entirety of most successful movies. --Bret Fetzer



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Excellent film, not as confusing as some would have you believe
I disagree with the opening line of the Amazon Editorial review which says "Plot is a meaningless ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hell is Repetition
There are those cinema experiences that will always stay with you for various reasons that sometimes ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - A bad movie that everyone should see once.
The movie starts out with a man (Bill Pullman) that suspects his wife (Patricia Arqhardtospell) of cheating ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Limps across the finish line.
Parts of Lost Highway are David Lynch's best work, in my opinion -- namely, the first half-hour or so. It is ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This is Elegant Dark Art
Yes, this film has Logic & a Plot!
It is not the familiar Logic and No familiar plot, nonetheless ... Read More

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