Lost Highway (1997)
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Duration: 134 minuten
Country:
United States / France
Directed by: David Lynch
Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette and Balthazar Getty
IMDb score:
7,6 (170.973)
Releasedate: 15 January 1997
Lost Highway plot
"A lost road on the edge of strange…"
The central figure in this hallucinatory film is Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a saxophonist whose marriage to Renee Madison (Patricia Arquette) is full of unspoken tensions. They rise even higher when they find anonymous video cassettes on their doorstep, something or someone is spying on the house and the residents. On one of those cassettes we see how Fred kills his wife, is sentenced to death and ends up on death row.
Actors and actresses
Fred Madison
Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
Pete Dayton
Mystery Man
Mr. Eddy / Dick Laurent
Andy
Sheila
Arnie
Bill Dayton
Candace Dayton
Reviews & comments
de grunt
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- 4338 messages
- 1576 votes
This enigmatic trip along a desolate highway, this ode to the femme fatale, this fabulous adaptation of Robert Aldrich's 'noir der noirs' indeed deserves (almost) a full 5, but that would do the other Lynch short. 
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Lovelyboy
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- 4059 messages
- 3041 votes
Went for the review tonight and despite the elusiveness surrounding the film, even after research and explanation found, still more impressed and convinced of a special film.
Once again, the fantastic atmosphere is striking, a mystery at its best that can be told in different parts from multiple characters, it seems, with a quite sinister atmosphere, disturbing images and sometimes very loud music in the form of Rammstein and Manson. Without even starting about the plot, the atmosphere and tone are central. Something the film scores highly with. Best parts are those around Fred, the phase with Pete is less so.
Nevertheless, some guidance or a proverbial tip of the veil is welcome or even desired. Because what was all this now? I found a particularly fascinating explanation at this Lost Highway explained: the meaning of David Lynch's masterpiece – Auralcrave. And something I can do something with myself. Obviously nothing is what it seems and the in-depth Freudian explanation is welcome and I find very interesting and would explain several things such as the Mystery Man's initiation of murder on Mr. Eddie. Furthermore, apart from the beginning with Fred until deadrow, what is shown is out of the blue and delusional.
Anyway, Lost Highway, a film that you could speculate about all night and then the film is by definition already successful. Great movie if this is your genre.
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Piem
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- 59 messages
- 62 votes
Weird movie, but I like this one. Nice and slow and mysterious.
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