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 ...

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 ...

According to some critics any attempt to describe the plot of Lost Highway is ultimately an exercise in futility, but essentially it involves two uniquely connected story lines. In the first, nightclub musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) faces a couple of potentially threatening situations. The jealous Fred is worried that his wife Renee (a brunette Patricia Arquette) is cheating on him, but even more worried when someone begins leaving videotapes on his doorstep showing someone slowly stalking them. Then, suddenly, Renee is dead, and Fred is in prison on death row after being convicted of her murder. Then, even more suddenly, Fred morphs, ...