By a nose, Nicholas Cage.
David Lynch was a true visionary, and I love how he was never afraid to take the type of overt stylistic risks that this film is crammed with from the jump.
I also love that he makes these incredibly cerebral, campily macabre and shocking pieces of art, and I really respect what was made here whilst not managing to wholly connect with the heart of it in the way that others seem to (unlike how…
Three disillusioned Navy guys in funny hats wandering, drinking, smoking, and chanting their way through the tri-state area. Often love a movie which is just about aimlessly vibing out, and there were some real great moments in this one (funny and sad alike), but the film also didn’t always fully resonate with me. Think I found the main three a bit much for my effeminate tastes. Did however love their little blue purses they carried around everywhere.
You lot lied to me saying this was a sexy movie - there were one, maybe two sexy scenes! If anything this veered into camp, which I obviously still enjoyed.
The simple framing of ‘Patrick loved Art, Art loved Tashi, Tashi loved tennis’ neatly sums up the movie for me - everyone wishing they had something else that someone else in the movie takes for granted. A really quite sad premise, and an interesting one to see play out on…
Saw a while ago, loved, thought was a really fresh way of looking at family relationships and how they interact with and are impacted by intergenerational baggage.
