
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, May 24, 1990                   TAG: 9005230320
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: E-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CANNES, FRANCE                                LENGTH: Short

LYNCH'S `WILD AT HEART' WINS BEST FILM AT CANNES

"Wild At Heart," a bloody, sexually explicit black comedy by American director David Lynch, won the Golden Palm award Monday as the best film at 43rd annual Cannes Film Festival.

Krystyna Janda of Poland won the best actress award for her portrayal of a dissident who undergoes torture in "The Interrogation," and Gerard Depardieu, already France's dominant film actor, won the best actor award his title role in "Cyrano de Bergerac."

The best director award was given to Pavel Lunghin of the Soviet Union for his first film, "Taxi Blues," a look at the seamy side of glasnost.

Another Soviet director, Gleb Panfilov, was honored for best artistic contribution for "The Mother," the story of a Russian woman's anguish as her son becomes radicalized by the family's harsh life under Czarist rule and is tried for subversion.

Lynch's "Wild at Heart" competed with 18 other films for the Golden Palm. His works include the films "Eraserhead" and "Blue Velvet" and the current television series "Twin Peaks."

by CNB