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Blue Velvet

1986

David Lynch

Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern ...

7.4

55,637

Mystery. Film noir. Drama Returning home to visit his father who is in intensive care at the hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a human ear he finds in a field. With local police detective Williams and the local police department unable to investigate, Jeffrey and Sandy, Detective Williams's daughter decide to do their own investigation. But what Jeffrey and Sandy's investigation leads them to discover that a dark underworld exists in their hometown. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The movie’s aural-visual humor and poetry are sustained despite the wobbly plot and other weaknesses."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Erotic, neurotic, euphoric and at all times unutterably twisted and bizarre (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Rob Fraser Empire	"'Blue Velvet' established the Lynchian style, introducing themes he would explore obsessively throughout much of his future career (...) a film of extreme characters and daring performances (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr The New York Times	"A throughly unpredictable, frequently disturbing and sometimes jaw-droppingly funny film. There isn't anything else quite like it, and it's pretty wonderful"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Given the power of the darker scenes in this movie, we're all the more frustrated that the director is unwilling to follow through to the consequences of his insights (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A disorientating palimpsest of moods and eras and genres"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The seamless blending of beauty and horror is remarkable - although many will be profoundly disturbed by Lynch's vision of male-female relationships"	POS
United Kingdom	Nicholas Barber BBC	"A terrifying yet seductive fantasy"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Picture takes a disturbing and at times devastating look at the ugly underside of Middle American life (...) Rossellini throws herself into this mad role with complete abandon"	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"An extraordinary journey into the mind of David Lynch, but that's all it is (...) Lynch has the mind of a Fellini, but his imagination outruns his skill."	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"A work of fascinating scope and power that rivals any of the most subversive films to reach the screens during the '80s."	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"'Blue Velvet' is surreal, stilted, and perverse, but it’s also the movie where [Lynch's] career began to make sense."	POS

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