Penny and Pudding Find Happiness

tedg

Spoilers herein.

Peter Greenaway wishes he made this film, which is pretty high praise indeed.

And that's the most puzzling thing about `Blue Velvet.' Lynch's talent here is in connecting his imagination directly to the viewer's mind without benefit of structure or coherence -- much in the line of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky.

Greenaway is all about coherence, a particularly intelligent notion of coherence. What Lynch did in `Mulholland Drive' had a novel structure, something missing here. As a result, I consider this much the inferior project. What we have here is the intuitive link, the effect only. The control of style but not yet of narrative.

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tedg 10 April 2002

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0230742/