Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton, J.E. Freeman, Willem Dafoe, Isabella Rossellini
Certificate: 18
Genre: Comedy
Awards: None
Wild At Heart follows a couple - Lula (Dern) and Sailor (Cage) - who decide to leave the state and break Sailor's parole in order to escape Laura's mother (Ladd) who does not approve of Sailor. In reaction, Laura's mother hires a number of killers to track down and kill Sailor.It may be obvious seeing as it's a David Lynch film but Wild At Heart is very weird. Mixing Elvis Presley with The Wizard Of Oz, Lynch creates a world that doesn't seem to belong to any time. All the villains seem incredibly strange and otherworldly whilst the tone becomes more and more sinister as the film goes on.
Cage delivers one of his best performances of his career as Sailor, sympathetic but brutish and probably the anchor for the whole film. Dern gives a similarly great show but the weak link is perhaps Ladd as the overbearing mother. It may be intentional to make the character annoying, yet the constant grating when she is on screen pounds upon the brain and it becomes a relief when she is not on screen.
Wild At Heart is a crazy romance story that is well worth watching if you have the chance. It's also a great introduction to David Lynch as it is very accessible.
****Good
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