Lost highway by David Lynch: death row, mental and organic corridorFrenchEnglish

Prison, and specifically death row, is the central point of the Lost highway (1997) film produced by American filmmaker David Lynch. Pending her execution by electric chair, Fred Madison, accused of the murder of his wife, is subject to a physical and mental experience that causes his disappearance from a cell; he then replaced him with a new human form, that of Pete Dayton. A nine-minute pivotal sequence, this time would seem to leave room for two parts that are both distinct and mirror in the articulation of the film. However, far from thinking of this act of metamorphosis only as a moment of separation, it is interesting to observe the expectation itself, to map the narrative and plastic elements put in place by the filmmaker to make an insulating space the place where the other time intervals of the film are developed and organised.