The feature-length prequel to the innovative 1990s TV series. David Lynch delves deeper into Laura Palmer’s double life to investigate the dark side of small-town America.
Twin Peaks is a quiet town in a picturesque valley in Washington, where Laura Palmer is a high-school student. A beauty queen loved by everyone during the day, at night she works in the local brothel and is addicted to cocaine. As she sinks deeper into her double life, increasingly more vulnerable through her addiction, the boundary between sincerity and pretence becomes blurred. Laura sees lucid dreams that she writes down in her diary, and through them unravels the mystery of the man who has long terrorized her. Unwilling to succumb to the dark forces that drive him, she is brutally murdered.
Returning to the world of Twin Peaks two years after the release of the series, Lynch ignores the second season’s ending (the third season only came out in 2017) and turns instead to the aspects of Laura Palmer’s life and death that created the main mystery of the series. Who killed Laura Palmer? Everybody was asking this question, and the answer to it is anything but clear. The prequel is less concerned with idyllic Americana and more focused on the dark, the otherworldly, and the mystical. The eery charm of Twin Peaks would not be possible without Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer, Kyle MacLachlan as agent Cooper, David Bowie as agent Phillip Jeffries stuck in a parallel world, and of course David Lynch himself as a hard-of-hearing FBI chief.
The film will be screened in English with Russian subtitles.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Director: David Lynch
USA, 1992. 134 min.
18+