Sailor (Cage) and Lula (Dern) are young lovers fleeing south from her vengeful mother (histrionically played by Dern's real-life mum, Diane Ladd). Unlike his previous feature, Blue Velvet, where the emotional charge came from two ultra-normal characters suddenly pitched into a world of menacing evil, Wild At Heart starts out from a comic book situation and just gets crazier. Whatever personal sensibilities may be ruffled, however, it is impossible to deny that what David Lynch produced was a weird and wonderful twist on the traditional road movie. Basically, it all depends on just how you like your explicit sex, gratuitous violence and eardrum-busting rock music.
The mixture of catcalls and cheers - the latter in the clear majority - which greeted Wild At Heart's Palme D'Or win at Cannes in 1990 is a fair example of this extraordinary film's ability to delight and offend in equal measure.
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