Lost Highway
From the Kafkaesque journey of Henry Spencer in Eraserhead to the nightmarish drift of the protagonist of Inland Empire, David Lynch has never ceased to take us off the beaten track and over the edge of unsuspected cliffs. The winding roads of the human psyche and discomfort are answered by the intricacies of narrative breakdown and the mise en abyme. The filmmaker opens the doors to parallel worlds reflecting our distorted expectations and challenging our passivity as spectators. There's never a bad excuse to revisit this prolific body of work and experience its vertiginous nature.
Fred Madison is a depressed saxophonist who lives with his wife Renée in a chic and highly secure house. One day he is told on his intercom that Dick Laurent is dead, but he sees no one on his cameras. Then he starts receiving VHS tapes that show his house from the outside, then from the inside, and finally he sees Renée being murdered.
David Lynch
David Lynch est un cinéaste, scénariste, photographe, musicien et peintre américain. Il est l'auteur de 10 longs-métrages sortis entre 1977 et 2006, ainsi que d'une série télévisée notable, Twin Peaks, initialement sortie en 1990-91 et prolongée en 2017. Nommé aux Oscars du cinéma comme meilleur réalisateur pour Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986) et Mulholland Drive (2001), il a reçu la Palme d'or au Festival de Cannes en 1990 pour Sailor et Lula et un Lion d'or d'honneur à la Mostra de Venise en 2006.
Photo : Josh Telles
