Blue Velvet
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Date: January 01, 1986 to December 31, 1986
Dates Note: 1986
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Next Door to Darkness: The Films of David LynchDescription:
Lynch’s color-saturated noir posits a small-town America steeped in psychic dread, where evil lurks beneath the manicured lawns. The plot concerns amateur sleuth Kyle MacLachlan’s encounters with bruised chanteuse Isabella Rossellini, girl-next-door Laura Dern, and sociopath-next-door Dennis Hopper; after a series of sordid set pieces, the bluebird of happiness finally arrives, but it’s an automaton with a real bug in its beak. “No one could quite match the traumatizing combination of horrific, comedic, aural, and subliminal effects Lynch rumbled out in this masterpiece. . . . Still a hilarious, red-hot poker to the brain” (Guy Maddin).
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