Lost Highway

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Lost Highway

R

1997

2h 15m

Mystery & Thriller

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From this inventory of imagery, Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette).

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Critics Consensus

Marking a further escalation in David Lynch's surrealist style, Lost Highway is a foreboding mystery that arguably leads to a dead end, although it is signposted throughout with some of the director's most haunting images yet.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

12/16/2024

5/5

Forget about vampires, zombies and the undead, this is true horror.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

07/05/2022

Lynch brings the movie’s febrile and violent artifice to life in visual compositions of a poised, painterly authority and interrupts them with quick bursts of hallucinatory frenzy.

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Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

04/01/2008

3.5/4

It's pensive male anxiety, and for some cultural reason it's easier for audiences to accept female hysteria than the insecurities of men.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 12

4/5

Possibly David Lynch's best blend of a cohesive narrative mixed with otherworldly elements.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Willamette Week

Feb 12

Evil flows like an invisible current through Lost Highway, one of Lynch’s feel-bad best.

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Noah Berlatsky

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

01/23/2025

Lynch refuses to commit to any clear theme beyond the standard misogynist noir trope that women who have sexual autonomy are evil and maybe deserve to be murdered.

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Jonny

Mar 23

amazing. chilling and artful. beautiful

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Jadan S

Mar 22

This film was the closest experience I've had that was akin to experiencing a dream while fully awake. Make no mistake, you will be lost while watching this. But it is 100% worth the journey.

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Peter

Mar 22

I don't know how to rate it. I hated it and loved it at the same.

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Carlos I

@carlosFibarra 1d

David Lynch’s Lost Highway is a disorienting descent into a fractured psyche, serving as the epitome of the nightmare imagery that Lynch is famously associated with. It operates on a frequency of pure dread, utilizing a haunting soundscape and surreal, jarring transitions to explore themes of identity and guilt. Beyond its avant-garde abstractions, it's a solid, tense thriller that grips you with a sense of inescapable claustrophobia, refusing to provide easy answers while it lingers in your mind like a fever dream.

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David H

@DavidQHarris Jan 31

This film had so much potential, but it largely squandered it. The best example of this is the pale-faced man who approaches the main character at a party and freaks him out. That character had so much potential, but it never amounted to much in the end. The ending revisits the opening scene. You'd like to think it would explain things, but it doesn't because it doesn't make any sense. Is the pale-faced man actually a good guy in the end? It's hard to say because his appearances here and there in the film are disjointed and incoherent.

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Katie K

Jan 24

I feel empty! I don’t feel happiness, I don’t feel sadness, I feel nothing. I won’t get that time back, seriously don’t bother, unless you want to come on here and pretend to be a deep intellectual.

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Synopsis

From this inventory of imagery, Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette).

Director: David Lynch
Producer: Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg, Mary Sweeney
Screenwriter: David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Distributor: October Films
Production Co: October Films, Lost Highway Productions, Asymmetrical Productions
Rating: R (Strong Language|Sexual Content|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 21, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 13, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.0K
Runtime: 2h 15m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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