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Inland Empire (2006)

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Reviews Counted:98

Fresh:70

Rotten:28

Average Rating:7.1/10

Consensus: 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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language, some violence and sexuality/nudity.

Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 6, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: With INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch--creator of such mind-bending works as ERASERHEAD and LOST HIGHWAY--delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever... With INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch--creator of such mind-bending works as ERASERHEAD and LOST HIGHWAY--delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, INLAND EMPIRE takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and spins it even further out of control. A blonde actress (Laura Dern) is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star (Justin Theroux), she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. And that's the only the beginning. Soon, a seemingly endless onslaught of indescribably bizarre situations flashes across the screen: a sitcom featuring humans in bunny suits, a parallel story set in a wintry Poland, a houseful of dancing streetwalkers, screwdrivers in stomachs, menacing Polish carnies, and much, much more. By the time the film's electrifying closing-credit sequence arrives, even diehard Lynch fans will be gasping for air. What most glaringly differentiates INLAND EMPIRE from Lynch's previous work is the format on which it was shot. This is the first time that he has chosen to shoot on digital video, as opposed to film, and while the decision is jarring at first, the grainy imagery nonetheless casts a creepy, haunting spell. Laura Dern's multi-fractured performance is downright heroic. She gives the film the human grounding that it so desperately needs. Not for the fragile or timid, INLAND EMPIRE is a full-blown assault to the senses. [More]

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Scott Coffey, Ian Abercrombie, Terry Crews, Grace Zabriskie, Julia Ormond, William H. Macy, Naomi Watts, Nastassja Kinski, Diane Ladd, Mary Steenburgen

Director: David Lynch

Director: David Lynch
Screenwriter: David Lynch
Producer: David Lynch, Mary Sweeney
Studio: 518 Media Inc.

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Unspeakably beautiful

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
08/28/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

The three-hour movie is at once inscrutable and deeply satisfying for its daring high wire act of narrative illusion and passionately charged emotions.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/23/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

David Lynch's Inland Empire, which runs 172 minutes, keeps collapsing in on itself.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
11/25/08
Dan Callahan
Dan Callahan
Slant Magazine

While the narrative is away with the bunnies, as a mood piece Lynch scores a slam dunk.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
06/13/08
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

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.

Full Review Source: Beyond Hollywood | comment Comment
04/13/08
Brian Holcomb
Brian Holcomb
Beyond Hollywood
N/R

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Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
11/24/07
Sydney Morning Herald

It's a movie spent inside Lynch's complicated head.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/13/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
11/09/07
Urban Cinefile Critics
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Urban Cinefile

Inland Empire is about the effects of movies themselves - the way they change us, inform our goals, and impact our self-image.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
09/04/07
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

It's an abstract jazz riff, it's a painting, it's a monster movie and a musical and a psychodrama and an ellipsis made of black holes.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/25/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
08/23/07
John Thomason
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly

It is challenging but simultaneously exhilarating as we travel through this never-waking nightmare.

Full Review Source: DVD Review | comment Comment
08/09/07
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

Sprawls onto the screen as if it had escaped directly from within David Lynch's mind, not like an alien creature let off its leash for the first time.

Full Review Source: Stranger Song | comment Comment
07/03/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Stranger Song

this story of magic, madness and metempsychosis will have you feeling like a rabbit trying to puzzle out what exactly is going on as wilder wolves circle and headlights career toward you out of the darkness.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/13/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

...ideal for those who thought [David Lynch's] Mulholland Drive was too simple and straightforward...

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
06/04/07
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

It's also too long and too reminiscent of Lynch's other work. But die-hard fans will find things to like.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
05/25/07
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
Sacramento Bee

Inland Empire opens and contracts in your imagination while you watch it -- and you're still watching it well after it's left the screen. It's a long but thoroughly absorbing three hours.

Full Review Source: RogerEbert.com | comment Comment
05/25/07
Jim Emerson
Jim Emerson
RogerEbert.com

An amazing and unshakeable experience.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
05/04/07
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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Suffice to say that three hours of hallucinatory audacity passes a lot faster than you might expect.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
05/04/07
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies
 
 
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