Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Country: US/FR
Technical: FotoKem 146m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Robert Forster, Lee Grant
Synopsis:
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood, is pushed over by her lesbian lover, lapses into suicidal, drug-anaesthetized despondency and dreams of being a success at her audition and saving the girl she has actually hired someone to kill.
Review:
Wonderfully teasy dream within a film, where the viewer's natural tendency is to assume the imagined begins after the first two thirds, where in fact the reverse is true. On reviewing there are several pointers in the best Lynchian style to this being the case: the too smooth cosiness of all the characters, or the 'over-determination' of a dreamer, as one critic puts it. A treat for fans, it was originally the pilot for a TV series, with a kinky closing section tacked-on which reinterprets completely what had gone before.
Country: US/FR
Technical: FotoKem 146m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Robert Forster, Lee Grant
Synopsis:
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood, is pushed over by her lesbian lover, lapses into suicidal, drug-anaesthetized despondency and dreams of being a success at her audition and saving the girl she has actually hired someone to kill.
Review:
Wonderfully teasy dream within a film, where the viewer's natural tendency is to assume the imagined begins after the first two thirds, where in fact the reverse is true. On reviewing there are several pointers in the best Lynchian style to this being the case: the too smooth cosiness of all the characters, or the 'over-determination' of a dreamer, as one critic puts it. A treat for fans, it was originally the pilot for a TV series, with a kinky closing section tacked-on which reinterprets completely what had gone before.
Country: US/FR
Technical: FotoKem 146m
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Robert Forster, Lee Grant
Synopsis:
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood, is pushed over by her lesbian lover, lapses into suicidal, drug-anaesthetized despondency and dreams of being a success at her audition and saving the girl she has actually hired someone to kill.
Review:
Wonderfully teasy dream within a film, where the viewer's natural tendency is to assume the imagined begins after the first two thirds, where in fact the reverse is true. On reviewing there are several pointers in the best Lynchian style to this being the case: the too smooth cosiness of all the characters, or the 'over-determination' of a dreamer, as one critic puts it. A treat for fans, it was originally the pilot for a TV series, with a kinky closing section tacked-on which reinterprets completely what had gone before.