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Wild At Heart (1990)

Directed by David Lynch · Cinematography by Frederick Elmes

R125 min53 frames

CrimeThrillerRomance

A wild and crazy love story.

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Wild At Heart — official trailer

What is Wild At Heart about?

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Wild at Heart is a 1990 American Southern Gothic black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton, the film follows Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Fortune (Dern), a young couple who go on the run across the Southern United States from Lula's domineering mother (Ladd) and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor.

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What does the cinematography of Wild At Heart look like?

Sampled across 52 frames, the coverage of Wild At Heart leans on close-ups (46% of the sample) and medium shots (29%). Cinematographer Frederick Elmes keeps 46% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 50% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Wild At Heart?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Wild At Heart (1990) are #32312d, #14100e, #59514c, #af9372, #261711, #897969 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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