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. September 3, 1993, 01 The New York Times Archives SURELY you've heard about Jennifer Chambers Lynch's 'Boxing Helena' by now. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. Synopsis: A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Boxing Helena is a 1993 film directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch (the daughter of David Lynch) and starring Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn.
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