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Mulholland Dr. (2001)

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From Time Out Film Guide

Originally intended for TV, Mulholland Dr. is much in the mould of Twin Peaks and Lost Highway. Lynch's characteristically bizarre noir focuses (probably too strong a word!) on a young beauty (Harring) who loses her memory after a car accident and hides out in a house where she's found and befriended by the absent owner's helpful niece (Watts), new to LA in the hope of becoming an actress. Meanwhile, a hot young film director (Theroux) is having trouble with the Mob trying to influence his choice of leading lady. Despite too many detours into nonsensical narrative cul-de-sacs, and too many shots that slowly travel towards corners down darkened corridors to the accompaniment of ominous rumbles, this works well enough as unsettlingly nightmarish suspense. That is, until it suddenly and stupidly decides to switch characters' identities, leaving one with a so-what feeling of déjà vu.

Author: GA

Time Out Film Guide

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Dominic said...

Posted on Jun 10 2010 06:55 A brilliant film. David Lynch's best. It may take a few watches to truly understand the plot, or the one time the identities of the main characters switch. However, it's all there. It just takes a patient mind to see it.

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zipping through said...

Posted on Aug 31 2009 20:38 Too long &, at times, too pretentious, it nonetheless holds the viewer's attention. Pity it -deliberately- blocks a credible explanation for the plot by continually switching the identities of the main characters.

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