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Laura Dern,
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Cinema of the surreal icon David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature Mulholland Drive with this dark mystery, shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder. It is the tale of an actress whose personality becomes increasingly fragmented as she delves ever deeper into her work for a high-profile filmmaker. Kingsley (Jeremy Irons) is a director looking to adapt for the screen a Polish gypsy folktale that was previously stalled when the two leads were viciously murdered. Having offered the female lead to devoted actress Nikki (Laura Dern), Kingsley warns her male co-star, Devon (Justin Theroux), to maintain his professional distance, as Nikki's husband (Peter J. Lucas) is known to be notoriously possessive. As the passionate co-stars quickly cross the line and become lovers, Nikki's slowly slipping sense of reality causes her to eventually become lost in her character while the mysterious story of a Polish couple and a trio of giant stage-bound rabbits (voices of Naomi Watts, Scott Coffey, and Laura Harring) lounge around on the sofa and tend to their domestic duties. Shot over the course of two and a half years and without a formalized script, Lynch's hallucinogenic look at a doomed film project features all of the abstract imagery and strange symbolism that have long made the director a favorite of film fans who embrace his disorienting approach to unconventional storytelling. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| A Beguiling Masterpiece
by mdraine
September 6, 2007 - 8:12 AM PDT
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3 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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| After the cancellation of "Twin Peaks," the commercial failures of FIRE WALK WITH ME and LOST HIGHWAY, Lynch fans questioned if Hollywood would permit him to make another film. The mainstream concessions of THE STRAIGHT STORY and combined artistic and commercial success of MULHOLLAND DRIVE demonstrated the mettle to reverse a downward career spin, and INLAND EMPIRE finds the director in top form. The smaller crew, budget, and editing flexibility of digital video appear to have been key to revitalizing the director's surreal narrative gifts. Here you'll find Lynch's favored motifs: the doppelganger (or in this case, ?quadruple-ganger?), the overlap of dream and waking states/film and reality, prostitutes, unforgettable characters, Hollywood, and monkeys. INLAND EMPIRE (the kingdom of the subconscious?) is too complex to comprehend in a single viewing, but don't hold its complexity and subtlety against it. INLAND EMPIRE is a film made to provoke thought and discussion. Today, much of the discussion will take place over the Internet, and I found the correspondence on IMDB particularly thoughtful. |
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by JRosha
August 6, 2007 - 3:22 PM PDT
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