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: Universal Studios
: Cult, Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Experimental/Avant-Garde
: 147 min.
: English
: English, Spanish, French
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David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no idea of where or who she is. As it turns out, the apartment is home to an elderly woman who is out of town, and is allowing her niece Betty (Naomi Watts) to stay there; Betty is a small-town girl from Canada who wants to be an actress, and her aunt was able to arrange an audition with a film director for her. Betty befriends the injured woman, who begins calling herself "Rita" after seeing a poster of Rita Hayworth. While Betty's audition impresses a casting agent, and she catches the eye of hotshot director Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux), Kesher's producers and moneymen insist with no small vehemence that he instead cast a woman named Camilla Rhodes. As Rita attempts to put the pieces of her life back together, she pulls the name Diane Selwyn from her memory; Rita thinks it could be her real name, but when she and Betty find a listing for Diane Selwyn and visit her apartment, they discover the latest victim of a mysterious killer who is eluding police detective Harry McKnight (Robert Forster). Rita's emotional identity soon takes a left turn, and it turns out that neither woman is quite who she once appeared to be. David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature. The resulting version of Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where David Lynch shared Best Director honors with Joel Coen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Everything you wanted to know about "Mulholland Drive" - Salon
Interview with David Lynch - Salon
Commentary track MP3 - Flak Magazine
Creative differences - New Yorker article on the pilot for ABC
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Eraserhead
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| Amazing commentary on how messed up we are
by JBellows
August 20, 2004 - 10:08 PM PDT
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0 out of 9 members found this review helpful
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I second the above review. In addition, a quick thought, having seen it twice: it really gives pause to the idea that mainstream attitudes about sex, relationships and art are narrow. That the idea that we can be 'seduced' into accepting a healthy lesbian relationship that mirrors a heterosexual one is disturbing to us when a film maker doesn't do it right. Also the midgets, its related. Trust me. Anyway, when you sit down to think about the two women's relationships, and the circle of influence around them, you realize that what we accepted as normal could be translated as 'normal' for gays, midgets, philanderers and people from LA as well. Even cowboys, I suspect!
While I don't think Lynch is a great director, he is a fantastic story teller--better with age, as well. Two thumbs up and a severed ear. |
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by TAubuchon
May 8, 2002 - 2:16 PM PDT
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15 out of 17 members found this review helpful
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Mulholland Drive is everything you want from a David Lynch film, dark, frighten filled with symbols and precision that is exclusive to David Lynch. At first the film seems rather straight forward, sweet blond girl(Laura Dern), dark mysterious woman(Isabella) with a dark secret has to find out her identity. There is a evil mafia that is involved with money and movie. It all is intertwined and the movie will be about solving the mystery.
However soon after being introduced to the bullied director, you realize everything is not as it seems and that David is enjoying a good poke at the industry that has not always treated him well. It isn't long until everything starts to swirl into chaos and darkness. Both reality and the plot seem to shift before your eyes. It becomes clear in the theater that the movie was always about five beats ahead of the audience and that we all were on this wonderfully dark and scary trip.
Naomi Watts(Betty) and Laura Elena Harring(Rita) both give stellar break through performances. Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack is, as always, breathtaking. This is a premiere film that highlights the best of David Lynch. |
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