Reviews

A friend of mine gave me this video about a year ago. It never took me long to get round to watching it as he told me what a great film it was. The night in question me and my then girlfriend sat in front of the television and nothing was said until an hour and half later. Engrossing, exhausting and enlightening are all words which I would assiocate with this film. It is a great journey of a film starting in Japan and working its way to the empty expance of Iceland the pace is subdued though relentless. It is cultural and mystical, saddening and humorous. It is also one of the best films I've ever seen. It reminds me of a mixture of directors from its style, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch and Gus Van Sant have all created films in which the same kind of atmosphere can be felt of crowded iscolation. p.s. watch for the gnome in the backround as he walks from the car to the farm.

After watching Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and Fredrick Thor Fredrickson's Cold Fever I knew that there was going to be a great pairing of acting abilities. This, of course, being that of Johnny Depp and Lili Taylor I was not disappointed. The film, at first, absorbs the viewer into a translucent though engaging tale of exploration into the mind and soul. This makes the viewer belive momentarily that the film that they are watching is going to be fanciful and mystic. Hence there at first is no bond between the characters and the Viewer. However, reality becomes less and less of a point or actuality in the film as it paces through the lives of the characters centering on Johnny Depp's charecter. An ifinitity is subconsiously drawn with him as we watch. Faye Dunnaway, who, at first, seemed utterly mis-cast is brilliant, her potrayal of the pre-menopausal cradle-snatcher is brilliant. Jerry Lewis also makes the film great as gritty realism exists in wealth. It feels like there is a piece of everyone in it, there is depression, love, life and death and the exploration of time. Although the film seems like a dream on celluloid it also makes the viewer understand and more importantly empathise with the charecters and at the end the sadness is alleviated by the theme of life, that life goes on, almost in circles. To anyone who has not yet been seriously touched by a film, watch this. It might change you're mind. 10/10 p.s. Watch for the balloon scene at the beginning!

In 1990 when I first saw this series I was in Primary 7 in a Cumbernauld primary school. I'd never seen anything like it and I don't think I'll see anything like it again. Brilliant, the film Fire Walk With Me was even better but the thing with Twin Peaks is you either love or hate it, I can't help but love it.