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‘A Love Story in Hell’: David Lynch on Wild at Heart
In a newly surfaced interview, the late director talks sex scenes, violence, and working with Nicolas Cage on his fever-dream romance.
And for Lynch, who filled his movies with images of searing fire and nicotine ecstasy, to exit the human realm just as his beloved Los Angeles was engulfed by actual flames? Thirty-odd years later, Lynch remained proud of the madcap road movie, even as it had been largely overshadowed in his filmography, due in part to its polarizing critical reception and absence from streaming platforms. When I finally got Lynch on the phone the following week, he seemed delighted to be reminiscing about Wild at Heart, a project for which he clearly retained affection and which he felt tapped into a certain madness in the world around him back then.
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