“It is at the moment when Los Angeles is a terrifying and devastating inferno like never before seen, the fire reducing to nothing the mythical and atmospheric settings of David Lynch’s films that the famous filmmaker who so well fantasized the City day and night of Angels at the cinema has decided to bow out”observe The evening.
The director of “Mullholland Drive”who shocked generations of moviegoers with a short – but oh so influential – filmography of ten feature films, winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1990 for “Sailor et Lula” and an honorary Oscar in 2019, died at the age of 78.
His family has not revealed the cause of death, but the filmmaker declared last August that he suffered from emphysema, a lung disease. He then declared, without blinking: “I must say that I really liked smoking and I like tobacco, its smell, lighting cigarettes on fire, smoking them.” And concluded: “I am filled with happiness and I will never retire.”
A style “often imitated” but “never equaled”
“There are certain artists so visionary, so daring in their originality, whose work exerts such a primal and enduring charm that it literally becomes difficult to imagine the world without them”sigh Variety.
“Just saying that name, David Lynch (so ironic in its simplicity), is like conjuring up not just a list of immortal films, but a higher cosmos of the imagination: a dark and fascinating surreal theme park where dreams could become real and reality felt like a dream”adds Owen Gleiberman, one of the film critics of the Hollywood title.
“Few filmmakers can boast of having seen their name become an adjective”more Lynch “was part of this distinguished group”adds Duty. “In fact, the director of ‘Blue Velvet’of ‘Twin Peak’ and of ‘Mulholland Drive’ had an openly mysterious style often imitated, but never equaled… nor elucidated. In the cinema ‘Lynchian’, reality indeed flirts with surrealism and dreaminess, in a very singular way. analyzes the Quebec title.
“Cryptic, hermetic and dark”David Lynch was “undoubtedly a visionary”summarizes for his part The Press. A genius “unique”inventor of stories “in which he knew how to combine, and not mix – which is not the same – elements of film noir, crime, a little horror and a lot of surrealism”added Clarion. “It’s not for nothing that the director of ‘Lost Highway’ has been compared to maestro Luis Buñuel”notes the Argentinian title.
-“Mr Lynch’s style has often been described as surreal”actually notices the New York Times. But its surrealism “was more intuitive than programmatic”judges the daily. “If the classic surrealists celebrated the irrational and sought to liberate the fantastic from the everyday, Mr. Lynch used the ordinary as a shield to ward off the irrational”.
“Strange” and “disturbing”
The American filmmaker “saw the nightmare behind the American dream”écrit Vanity Fair in his obituary. From“Elephant Man” has “Erasurehead”from his television series “Twin Peaks” has “Dune” or the ultimate “Inland Empire”his work could be “strange, disturbing, non-linear, even perverse”but there was “a method to this madness and a deep meaning to be discovered in the confusion he so skillfully sowed”, says the magazine.
The Hollywood Reporter is surprised that such an audacious work could have developed – at least in part – in Hollywood, “a place where creativity, especially that which is dark and deranged, tends to take a back seat to commercial viability and the almighty bottom line”.
David Lynch, adds Hollywood magazine, “did not only make a series of groundbreaking films that can only be defined as Lynchian. He did so at a time when the American film industry was beginning to grow, then explode, into a franchise-driven behemoth where his offbeat work was the last thing studios wanted..
The Country finally recalls that “if his cinema has created an aesthetic in itself thanks to its atmospheres full of mystery and surrealism, Lynch never wanted to define himself solely as a filmmaker”. Artiste “unclassifiable”il “painted, composed music, made experimental videos and boasted of not having lived a single day since 1973 without practicing transcendental meditation”.
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