Lost Highway
A jazz saxophonist on death row morphs into a new identity in David Lynch's extraordinary LA noir.
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Lost Highway tells the story of jazz saxophonist Fred Madison (Pullman) who is found guilty of murdering his wife Renee (Arquette). On death row, Fred inexplicably morphs into a younger man, a car mechanic named Pete Dayton (Getty) and becomes involved with a gangster's moll, Alice Wakefield (also played by Arquette). Lynch's remarkable multi-faceted LA noir experiments with a narrative structure without obvious entry or exit points.
| Director | David Lynch |
| Cast | Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Gary Busey |
| Country | USA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Running time | 134min |
BFI Southbank Programme Update - 22 May (No.32)