Wild at Heart
A young couple flee across the American South while the woman's mother, bent on stopping them, sends killers after her daughter's lover.
Cannes Palme d'Or 1990 won
Sailor and Lula, young and in love, break parole and flee across the American South. Lula's mother, determined to end the relationship, hires men to pursue and kill Sailor, and the lovers' road trip drifts into violence and menace.
The film is driven by a devouring, murderous mother whose grip works like a maternal superego, so that desire and fantasy repeatedly overwhelm reality. For a clinician it is a heightened study of the maternal figure who cannot let a child go. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1990, based on the novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula by Barry Gifford.
Details
- 1990
- United States
- English
- Film