Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

1990

Directed by David Lynch

Wild at Heart, based on Barry Gifford’s 1989 novel of the same name, is a darkly comic crime movie. Enlivened by Nicolas Cage’s excellent and off-kilter acting, David Lynch’s surreal directorial choices, and a dreamlike approach to the road movie that combines repeated intrusions of The Wizard of Oz with compellingly stilted characters, abrupt tonal shifts, and mythically outsized emotions, Wild at Heart is a strangely sweet love story.

Would see.