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Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

David Lynch


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1986
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 120 min.

A postmodern suburban nightmare from David Lynch, the premiere cinematic excavator of the dark lusts and terrifying violence beneath Ozzie-and-Harriet small-town Americana, Blue Velvet was the director's critical and commercial breakthrough, introducing his uniquely twisted vision and trademark offbeat humour to a wider audience.

Cinematheque

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Excavating the dark lusts and terrifying violence beneath Ozzie-and-Harriet small-town Americana, David Lynch's postmodern suburban nightmare was his critical and commercial breakthrough, introducing his uniquely twisted vision and trademark offbeat humour to a wider audience. Returning to his picture-perfect hometown after his father suffers a stroke, clean-cut, Hardy Boy-ish hero Jeffrey (Kyle McLachlan) discovers a severed ear in a field and is soon plunged into the depraved netherworld beyond the white picket fence. Allied with the impossibly blonde girl next door (Laura Dern), entranced by a mysterious nightclub chanteuse (Isabella Rossellini) and threatened by a psycho sucking amyl nitrite from a gas mask (Dennis Hopper), Jeffrey finds that the line between hero and villain, detective and pervert is exceedingly fine.

Our screening of Blue Velvet will be presented as part of a special event with Isabella Rossellini.


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