Between Worlds is an apt title as this films exists in the space been terrible and batshit insanely awesome and I kind of love it? That the director is so obviously a fan of David Lynch and that this film is so heavily Lynch coded throughout gives me a dose of the warm and fuzzies, but also don’t get me wrong, a loving tribute this may be, but it is no Lynch movie.
Cage is a redneck named Joe (waitasecond…) who assists Julia (Franka Potente) with a strangulation triggered (don’t ask) ethereal rescue of her comatose daughter Billie (Penelope Mitchell). But did Julia rescue Billie or did she accidentally attract the attention of Joe’s dead wife seeking an escape from the afterlife…
Director Maria Pulera has stamped her love of Lynch of all over this with an Angelo Badalamenti theme song, the use of Marilyn Manson’s Lost Highway contribution ‘I put a Spell on You’, a blatant rip off of Badalamenti’s own Peaks soundtrack from composer Jason Solowsky and a Nic Cage obsessed with snake skin. But not a Snakeskin jacket as a symbol of his individuality and belief in personal freedom, rather a pair of snakeskin man panties that Cage wears when Julia catches him banging her daughter that is inhabited by the spirit of his dead wife.
It’s not a red curtain and jazz singing Lynch. It’s a Leo Johnson trucker, backyard BBQ and Big Tuna Texas kind of a Lynch.
And yet it’s also outlandishly parodical, particularly where Cage, involved in a hot and heavy love making session with the pretty damn tasty Aussie starlet Mitchell, starts to read aloud from a Nicolas Cage penned book of sex memoirs?!
Also the bike washing scene!?!
Between Worlds is an apt title as this films exists in the space been terrible and batshit insanely awesome and I kind of love it? That the director is so obviously a fan of David Lynch and that this film is so heavily Lynch coded throughout gives me a dose of the warm and fuzzies, but also don’t get me wrong, a loving tribute this may be, but it is no Lynch movie.
Cage is a redneck named Joe (waitasecond…) who assists Julia (Franka Potente) with a strangulation triggered (don’t ask) ethereal rescue of her comatose daughter Billie (Penelope Mitchell). But did Julia rescue Billie or did she accidentally attract the attention of Joe’s dead wife seeking an escape from the afterlife…
Director Maria Pulera has stamped her love of Lynch of all over this with an Angelo Badalamenti theme song, the use of Marilyn Manson’s Lost Highway contribution ‘I put a Spell on You’, a blatant rip off of Badalamenti’s own Peaks soundtrack from composer Jason Solowsky and a Nic Cage obsessed with snake skin. But not a Snakeskin jacket as a symbol of his individuality and belief in personal freedom, rather a pair of snakeskin man panties that Cage wears when Julia catches him banging her daughter that is inhabited by the spirit of his dead wife.
It’s not a red curtain and jazz singing Lynch. It’s a Leo Johnson trucker, backyard BBQ and Big Tuna Texas kind of a Lynch.
And yet it’s also outlandishly parodical, particularly where Cage, involved in a hot and heavy love making session with the pretty damn tasty Aussie starlet Mitchell, starts to read aloud from a Nicolas Cage penned book of sex memoirs?!
Also the bike washing scene!?!
