Blue Velvet
Cinema
David Lynch, 1986 2h 1m (18)
Back in cinema for its 40th anniversary, David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated adult fairytale follows teen sleuth Kyle Maclachlan’s murder inquiry into the surreal, perverse corners of small-town America.
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Back in cinemas for its 40th anniversary, David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated adult fairytale follows teen sleuth Kyle Maclachlan’s murder inquiry into the surreal, perverse corners of small-town America.
A gruesome discovery leads clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont (Maclachlan) to uncover a dark flipside to life in sleepy small-town Lumberton, as he becomes entwined in the perverse relationship between tormented singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and deranged gangster Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).
Informed by both the underground experiments of Kenneth Anger and the 1950s melodramas of Douglas Sirk, Lynch’s visually arresting film has a singular power. With an immersive soundtrack by composer Angelo Badalamenti (the first of many collaborations with Lynch) and superb performances, Blue Velvet is in many ways the quintessential Lynch film, bringing the uncanny, noirish quality of nightmares into the sunlit dream of suburban America.