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On its release in America in October, David Lynch's film, which is as perversely sadomasochistic as Josef von Sternberg's Dietrich farragos and as lushly surreal as Raul Rufz's early work, lured critics into oxymorons. The Village Voice's J. Hoberman described it as "thrilling and ludicrous", the New York Times' Stephen Holden dubbed it "the grandest and silliest cinematic carnival to come along in some time." And as if inspired by the moral reactionaries who savaged Michael Powell's masterpiece Peeping Tom, the New York Observer's Rex Reed unintentionally vindicated Lynch' s film with the sheer uncomprehending viciousness of his attack.