Inland Empire (2006)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 29
Typical David Lynch fare: fans of the director will find Inland Empire seductive and deep. All others will consider the heady surrealism impenetrable and pointless.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 13
Typical David Lynch fare: fans of the director will find Inland Empire seductive and deep. All others will consider the heady surrealism impenetrable and pointless.
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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
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All Critics (108) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (84) | Rotten (30) | DVD (20)
An amazing and unshakeable experience.
Top CriticA bucket of Lynchian leftovers, stirred slightly and left to ferment in the dark.
You may find Lynch's experimentalism and willful obscurity to be the work of a poseur, ultimately pointless drivel. I can understand that, but I think you would be wrong.
A can't-miss experience and likely one of the year's very best films.
Whether shattering or boring, you'll still have your eyes wide, wide open from begin to end.
Lynch's brilliant and bizarre films have often come to us as a puzzle wrapped in an enigma, but his latest is enshrouded with two layers of 'who cares?'
A shaky CCTV cam from inside a mind on the edge of madness, the visuals and surreal riddles suggest Lynch has come full circle to the genius of his debut, Eraserhead. What he does now is anyone's guess. And that's thrilling.
Trippy, twisty thriller is totally out to Lynch.
Unspeakably beautiful
The three-hour movie is at once inscrutable and deeply satisfying for its daring high wire act of narrative illusion and passionately charged emotions.
David Lynch's Inland Empire, which runs 172 minutes, keeps collapsing in on itself.
Lo mejor, sin duda, es la generación de climas agobiantes, grotescos y sugestivos, a veces sacudidos por extremos de horror y hasta por alguna parodia de comedia musical.
While the narrative is away with the bunnies, as a mood piece Lynch scores a slam dunk.
A crazy midnight roller coaster ride to Lynchland. A movie you might half dream through an all night marathon of noir and slasher films, your heart pumping with caffeine.
It's a movie spent inside Lynch's complicated head.
While it is not nearly as good as Mulholland Drive, this latest complex concoction is fascinating in parts; even if you don't understand it
Inland Empire is about the effects of movies themselves - the way they change us, inform our goals, and impact our self-image.
The famous Lynch style is parodied in outrageous fashion on one of the bonus features.
Few saw Lynch's masterful film (it was self-distributed) in the theaters, hence the DVD is especially welcome, and deleted scenes, comments, and helmer's work with Laura Dern illuminate a unique film in which process is just as important as end result
(The result is) a kind of motion picture mesmerism. Even without completely understanding everything that's going on, INLAND EMPIRE sucks you in and holds every fiber of your being.
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