![]() ![]() Presented instead as a macabre modern fairy tale, and staged in unexpectedly discreet style (under the circumstances), her "Boxing Helena" is at least as hypnotically peculiar as it is perverse. Her film is by no means the gory, exploitative quasi-pornography that it sounds like from afar. Or about the impossibility of truly possessing anyone. Ignore the severed limbs, and this is a story about love and obsession. Lynch has been trying hard to leap past the lurid to the metaphorical as she explains what her film is about. In the hailstorm of publicity that surrounds the film's opening, Ms. ![]() It's also the film that threatens to give the concept of metaphor a bad name. Lynch's father, David ("Blue Velvet") Lynch, look like Norman Rockwell. Speaking of feet, "Boxing Helena" is the one that sounds as if its story, about a surgeon who amputates the arms and legs of the woman he loves, could make Ms. ![]() It's the film that made legal history when its prospective star, Kim Basinger, was held liable for having got cold feet. Kurtwood Smith and Art Garfunkel play Nick’s doctor friends who are useless in helping Nick with his impotence.SURELY you've heard about Jennifer Chambers Lynch's "Boxing Helena" by now. Eventually Bill Paxton shows up in leather pants with a gun to put an end to the affair, and the twist ending is inexplicable. Nick gets bored with her and cuts her arms off too and puts her in a box. ![]() But the novelty of a legless Helena soon wears off as she treats Nick with the same scorn in scene after scene. The movie takes a funny turn when Helena is hit by a truck and loses her legs and Dr. His feeble attempts to woo Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) are met with laughter by her and the audience. Nick Cavanaugh, is the real dud of the movie. Julian Sands, who plays the lead role of Dr. The resulting film is strange, though not necessarily in a Lynchian way (although there are elements of oddness that seem influenced by her father David Lynch). Jennifer Chambers Lynch wrote Boxing Helena when she was 19 years old and went on to direct the film when she was 24. ![]()
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