Lost Highway (DVD)

Here, at the beginning of a film-review, there ought to be some kind of plot synopsis, shouldn´t it? No chance, not with this film! Sure, one can try and write about the couple the story starts with, and how they find a mysterious videotape in front of their house one morning, and one more on each following day, showing out of his perspective the intrusion of their house by the even more mysterious film-maker, a bit further inside on every day, until he even films them peacefully sleeping in their bed. One can also write about the husband ( Bill Pullman in what is most probably his best role ever), who – after meeting a strange pale man who seems to have ...

Released in theaters in 1997 Lost Highway is classic David Lynch. He uses strange plot structure, so while the film begins normally enough, it soon becomes twisted and surreal. To summarize the plot, a couple find a video tape left on the steps leading to their house, the small amount of footage on the tape is of the outside of their house. More video tapes arrive and the footage they see on the video becomes more and more alarming as the unknown camera operator begins to record them asleep in their bed. Obviously this is disturbing to them and they contact police, but with no other evidence they can do nothing for them. The film then ...

Lost Highway's plot is very bizarre. At first it seems like a mysterious film noir. A married couple, Renee(Patricia Arquette) and jazz musician Fred (Bill Pullman) start to recieve weird videotapes on their doorsteps, at first the tape just shows the exterior of their house. The next tape is a lot more sinister, as the mysterious cameraman is inside the house and filming the two sleeping. The two call the police, who is typical Lynch style aren't the best of police officers, and are shaken up. Meanwhile Fred is convinced that his beautiful wife is having an affair and is very paranoid about this. One night at a party, Fred is approached by a very ghost like man ...