Free form saxophonist Freddy Madison (Bill Pullman) has suspicions his wife (Patricia Arquette) may be seeing another man. After a gig one night he finds himself suddenly charged with murdering her. Quickly tried and convicted and imprisoned in a hell hole he some how morphs into a scofflaw character and is released where he takes up with Arqeutte in another role as a loose cannon's (Robert Loggia) moll.
Directed by David Lynch this violent and erotic noir, science fiction hybrid is a rather far out drab mystery that asks its audience to accept the massive absurdity that divides the picture, waveringly staying on point and leading to a dismal indifferent climax.
The dialogue is oblique and banal, performances unmotivated, especially in the perplexed look of Pulliam wondering like the rest of us what's with the presto chango character. Lynch has no explanation to this series of tense to tedium moments that populate the picture, injecting his standard tropes of explicit violence, weird zombie like characters (Robert Blake in this one playing a dwarf version of Bela Lugosi) and getting his lead actresses to undress.
There's some sly dry humor along the way but when the premise demands more from its audience and has nothing to show for it, maybe you should seek another route.
Directed by David Lynch this violent and erotic noir, science fiction hybrid is a rather far out drab mystery that asks its audience to accept the massive absurdity that divides the picture, waveringly staying on point and leading to a dismal indifferent climax.
The dialogue is oblique and banal, performances unmotivated, especially in the perplexed look of Pulliam wondering like the rest of us what's with the presto chango character. Lynch has no explanation to this series of tense to tedium moments that populate the picture, injecting his standard tropes of explicit violence, weird zombie like characters (Robert Blake in this one playing a dwarf version of Bela Lugosi) and getting his lead actresses to undress.
There's some sly dry humor along the way but when the premise demands more from its audience and has nothing to show for it, maybe you should seek another route.