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Tytuł oryginalny: Twin Peaks
Tytuł polski: Miasteczko Twin Peaks
Rok produkcji: 1990
Kraj produkcji: USA
Reżyser: David Lynch
Gatunek: dramat/thriller
Ilość odcinków: 8
Czas trwania: EP00:113 min, EP01-07: ~45min
Ograniczenie wiekowe: 15+

Serial telewizyjny Davida Lyncha i Marka Frosta, który już w trakcie pierwszej emisji zyskał sobie miano "kultowego". Twórcy przedstawili w nim pozornie sielskie i radosne miasteczko, zamieszkane przez sympatycznych ludzi, których specjalnością są placki z wiśniami, i których cieszy napływ turystów chcących podziwiać dwa bliźniacze, ośnieżone szczyty i piękny wodospad. Ale w Twin Peaks kryją się także najmroczniejsze dusze i ponure sekrety. Seks, narkotyki, morderstwa. A wszystko zaczyna się od znalezienia ciała uczennicy, Laury Palmer (Sheryl Lee). Do Twin Peaks przyjeżdża agent federalny Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) i rozpoczyna wyjątkowo nieszablonowe śledztwo...

Recenzja pobrana z: filmweb.pl

OBSADA:

Mädchen Amick: Shelly Johnson
Kyle MacLachlan: Agent specjalny FBI Dale Cooper
Ray Wise (I): Leland Palmer
Dana Ashbrook: Bobby Briggs
Michael Ontkean: Szeryf Harry S. Truman
Richard Beymer: Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle: Donna Marie Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn: Audrey Horne
Piper Laurie: Catherine Packard Martell/Mr. Tojamura
Sheryl Lee: Laura Palmer/Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Russ Tamblyn: Dr. Lawrence Jacoby

 English description

Title: Twin Peaks
Year of productioni: 1990
Country: USA
Director: David Lynch
Genres: drama/thriller
Number of episodes: 8
Duration: P00:113 min, EP01-07: ~45min
Age Rating: 15+

She’s dead. Wrapped in plastic.”

The line begins one of the landmarks of television – the 113-minute pilot episode of David Lynch’s seminal Twin Peaks series, which ran for two seasons before ending in 1991, mostly due to complaints on all fronts, complaints that the thing had become just too absurd, too self-indulgent, and too unwieldy. In our cultural memory, the notorious “second season” of Twin Peaks stands out as an emblem of genius sinking into burn-out, as a symbol of a punch-drunk fighter who doesn’t know when it’s best just to stay down. But in 1990, during the first season, it was a godsend to television viewers and Lynch followers who had been starved for creativity and the joy of seeing something new and exciting.

The gruesome opening line is uttered by Pete Martell, played by Lynch staple Jack Nance, as he reports to the sheriff about a dead body, that of high school student Laura Palmer, that he’s discovered on his way to go fishing. The death sends shockwaves through the town, and in the most emotionally direct and powerful sequence Lynch has ever created, we see her parents, her classmates, and even her principal breaking down as the news sinks in. The sequence is brilliant in its emphasis on the unsaid – on the characters’ figuring things out based on simple visual cues – Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle) sees a sheriff’s deputy whispering to her teacher, a girl screaming as she runs across the courtyard, and Laura’s empty seat.

Word is barely out when the government is called in – in the person of Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan, whose character has become one of the foremost icons, and most beloved characters, of the Lynch mythology). Cooper is a virtuoso detective, a consummate professional, a man who loves precision and neatness. He’s also a loon, always in an almost maniacal good cheer. It’s a tribute to MacLachlan’s inimitable screen presence and line-reading skills that he can transform a bit of throwaway dialogue, recited without irony, like “Diane, I'm holding in my hands a small box of chocolate bunnies,” into a thing of comic beauty.

If you’ve never seen or heard of Twin Peaks, I may be making it sound like a comedy, and while there’s an abundance of funny lines and scenes (Lynch didn’t invent “quirky,” but he sure made it fashionable for a while), the crux of the pilot, and the series that followed, was on the network of soap-operatic families, love affairs, and revenge plots. There is also the ever-present sense of the otherworldly that is in all of Lynch’s work (save for The Straight Story) – of things not being quite what they seem.

Twin Peaks occupies worlds of the natural, the supernatural, and the (wilfully, purposefully, and often wittily) clichéd. It is a mix that serves Lynch better than it did Kubrick, and raises his achievements to the level of Hitchcock and Bunuel. The three worlds of Lynch dance together to create something extraordinary, challenging, and unforgettable

Review by: Jaime [email protected]

CAST:

Mädchen Amick: Shelly Johnson
Kyle MacLachlan: FBI's Special Agent Dale Cooper
Ray Wise (I): Leland Palmer
Dana Ashbrook: Bobby Briggs
Michael Ontkean: Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Richard Beymer: Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle: Donna Marie Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn: Audrey Horne
Piper Laurie: Catherine Packard Martell/Mr. Tojamura
Sheryl Lee: Laura Palmer/Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Russ Tamblyn: Dr. Lawrence Jacoby