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Crime, vice and paranoia are hidden under the idyllic atmosphere of a rural community, in a film that subverts the “film noir” stereotypes. Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) finds a human ear in a garden, and to find the correspondent body he asks Sandy (Laura Dern), a police man’s daughter, for help. The key for this mystery opens the doors to an universe where sadism, perversion, fetichism and violence are the watchwords. There they come across Dorothy Vallen (Isabella Rosselini), a singer in a nightclub, whose husband and son were kidnapped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a man that threatens the abyss, and sexually harases Dorothy in exchange for her family’s safety. Through the light and through the shadow, Blue Velvet takes us on a initiatory journey into a sinister world, where innocence is being constantly threatened by darkness.
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Cast:
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell -
Original Title:
Blue Velvet -
Country:
United States of America -
Year:
1987 - 120’
Director
David Lynch
Born in Montana in 1946, the acclaimed screenwriter and filmmaker directed his first feature-length film, Eraserhead, in 1977, which quickly became a cult classic. He then continued his career writing and directing many features that have since become classics, amongst which Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Dr. (2001). In television, he created the famous series Twin Peaks (1990-1991), one of his most remarkable works. Lynch remains one of the biggest living auteurs up to today, defying the medium’s convention through the original, the surreal, and the unexplainable. After the director attended the LEFFEST’07, the last edition of LEFFEST, in 2018, paid him an homage, screening many of his films and exhibiting his still photography work.
