Blue Velvet
classified 18Please note: This was screened in Jan 2017
Director David Lynch dives beneath the surface of superficial suburbia to reveal a gruesomely sinister side to American life in this dark masterpiece of a mystery-thriller. When clean cut good guy Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle Maclachlan) returns to his small picture-perfect hometown and discovers a severed ear in a field, he slowly begins to uncover a bizarre, nightmarish underworld lurking behind this seemingly innocent slice of apple pie USA.
Jeffrey is determined to find out what has happened, but in the process is dragged into the deepest and darkest depths of social deviance, becoming drawn into the terrifying sado-masochistic relationship between Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini) and gangster Frank (Dennis Hopper). Will his new compulsions and desires engulf him? Lynch's radical, voyeuristic thriller is a stunning blend of beauty and horror: profoundly disturbing, yet utterly compelling.