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Lost Highway

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from 29 Jan 2026
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Noir is deconstructed to the elemental evil in perhaps the most frightening and mysterious Lynch’s classic masterpiece.

Lost Highway
1997, David Lynch

United States—France
134 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia

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Saxophonist Fred loses his self-confidence and, tormented by doubts and jealousy, kills his wife Rene. He is sentenced to death, but in the morning, prison guards find a completely different person in his cell—a young car mechanic who has no idea how he ended up behind bars.

Shot from Lost Highway, 1997

The plot of Lost Highway adapts narrative devices that film—and only film—can make actually visible, mines that potential to represent the uncanny that the medium had delightedly played with from its earliest years.

—Marina Warner, Sight & Sound

The plot of Lost Highway unfolds in a Möbius strip that is almost impossible to interpret literally, and watching it is a true revelation. Lynch seems to deconstruct the noir genre into its individual elements—the femme fatale, the criminal’s pangs of conscience, the mysterious criminal conspiracy—and then reassembles them into a sophisticated, unique construction.

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