The life of Sailor, a young smart guy, who is in love with Lula, from whom he is separated after being arrested for killing a man, who after his release from prison, accompanies Lula and flees to California, has been turned upside down, as they begin to discover one another.
Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown some fidelity to the realistic context.
This winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or is a lunatic road movie seething with the same dark intensity that animates director Lynch's earlier work.
