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Watching David Lynch Get a Standing Ovation at Cannes Will Make Your Day
Redemption is a beautiful thing.
An incredible 25 years after we last hung around the most bizarre fictional town in TV history, David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” returned to Showtime this past weekend with a new season that will include 18 brand new episodes. It goes without saying that most fans of the show had long ago made peace with the fact that prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was the last they’d ever see of that universe, so it’s needless to say kind of a big deal that it’s back.
On the subject of Fire Walk With Me, which has amassed a large cult following over the years, it wasn’t exactly well received at the time. Infamously, the film was booed at Cannes when it premiered back in 1992, and it was also met with mostly negative reviews across the board. “It was a little bit of a sadness,” Lynch said of the Cannes reaction at the time, no doubt hurt by the overwhelmingly negative response to his return to Twin Peaks.
But 25 years later, things are much different. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Lynch’s latest return to Twin Peaks inspired an incredible 4-minute standing ovation, part of which was captured on video for us all to enjoy. With tears in his eyes, Lynch was clearly touched by the reaction, which was the polar opposite of the one he received the last time he brought “Twin Peaks” to that very event.
Enjoy.
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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