Fresh
Shocking, visionary, rapturously controlled, its images of innocence and a dark, bruising sexuality drop straight into our unconscious where they rest like depth charges.
Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
Blue Velvet
It's a strange world, isn't it?
1986 · 2h · R
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
David Lynch
Overview
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director and cast
- David Lynch Director
- Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens
- Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont
- Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth
- Laura Dern as Sandy Williams
- Hope Lange as Mrs. Williams
- Dean Stockwell as Ben
- George Dickerson as Det. John Williams
- Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Beaumont
- Frances Bay as Aunt Barbara
- Jack Harvey Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[A] powerful, mesmerizing thriller, a masterful exercise in controlling an audience`s attention.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Lush and peculiar Blue Velvet, the latest film from the mind that spawned Eraserhead, is an unnerving combination of the wholesome and the unholy.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
Destined to become a cult classic, Blue Velvet presents what is probably the most original cinematic vision to come along this year. Undoubtedly, it will be too strong for many tastes.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Lynch and his film will surely be reviled, but as an experiment in expanding cinema's dramatic and technical vocabulary, Blue Velvet demands respect.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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