Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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.
In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death. (Janus Films)

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.
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