Mulholland Drive (2001)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 29
Mulholland Drive makes little sense, even for a Lynch film, but its dreamlike imagery is mesmerizing, and Watts delivers a great performance.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 4
Mulholland Drive makes little sense, even for a Lynch film, but its dreamlike imagery is mesmerizing, and Watts delivers a great performance.
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Movie Info
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
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Justin Theroux
Adam Kesher -
Naomi Watts
Betty Elms -
Laura Harring
Rita -
Ann Miller
Coco Lenoix -
Dan Hedaya
Vincenzo Castigliane -
Mark Pellegrino
Joe -
Robert Forster
Det. Harry McKnight -
Katharine Towne
Cynthia Jenzen -
Lee Grant
Louise Bonner -
Michael J. Anderson
Mr. Roque -
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Scott Coffey
Wilkins -
Billy Ray Cyrus
Gene -
Chad Everett
Jimmy Katz -
Matt Gallini
Limo Driver -
Melissa George
Camilla Rhodes -
Marcus Graham
Vincent Darby -
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Monty Montgomery
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James Karen
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Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while.
Top CriticOne of the very few movies in which the pieces not only add up to much more than the whole, but also supersede it with a series of (for the most part) fascinating fragments.
Like Twin Peaks, it keeps spooling out more narrative twists until the ingenious maze turns into an oppressive tangle.
A movie to savour.
Lynch challenges our expectations of narrative and credibility by luxuriating in something else -- the unexplained, the making of no-sense that (he says) underlies life.
Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again.
It's a big mess! But not in a controlled sense like Lynch's other films.
Leads us into our own strange need to untangle the spools of film and dream, fiction and truth, protective fantasy and traumatic reality. Lynch uses the twinkling lights and dazzling stars of superficial LA to warp us into a deeper, stranger surreality.
Fascinating movie for adults only.
Billy Ray Cyrus as an amorous poolman punched by a mobster? David Lynch's commentary on independent filmmaking? Lesbian erotica as sad as it is exaggeratedly hot? Lynch's greatest puzzle box snaps together in sparse, bold, sexy and thrilling fashion.
When directors get you to ponder this much and leave a lasting impression after you've seen a movie of theirs, they have to be doing something right.
As moviemaking -- as pure abstract art writ large -- this is a classic, a thing of dark mystifying beauty.
A summation work at midpoint career, this visually menacing horror picture, which deconstructs Hollywood as the dream factory, continues to explore such Lynchian obsessions as good vs. evil and dreams vs. nightmares.
As art, Drive is extraordinary. As a film for general audiences, it's bound to be misunderstood, condemned as pornographic, or exploited for cheap thrills.
Once the film has its claws dug into you or has inveigled you via its seductive scent there is no way for it to relinquish its grasp, and Lynch wouldn't have it any other way.
Go for the performances and the photography, but don't talk about the film over coffee afterwards - you could still be ordering triple espressos the next morning.
A Sapphic Nancy Drew Mystery on the Lost Highway ... When it comes to Lynch, the journey is always more interesting than the destination
...A dreamy, nightmarish, highly contemplative piece of celluloid that, while it will certainly not appeal to everyone, is just the kind of thing critics love: something different.
Another strange and twisted film from the bizarre mind of David Lynch.
Some very clever experimental cinema in the Lynch vein.
It's a self-indulgent but mostly absorbing meditation about the business of filmmaking, and Lynch spares no egos in this near-parody of the craziness that is Hollywood.
Nobody, but nobody, makes movies as glossy, hypnotic, repellant, exciting, annoying, memorable, incoherent and entertaining as writer-director David Lynch.
My biggest gripe is that this open-ended noir mystery, dark comedy and indictment of Hollywood as morally bankrupt Dream Factory should have felt fresher and been more fun.
A beautiful, woozy mystery for the id... a surrealistic gem whose terrifying visions of despair stick to you like an inescapable night sweat.
...movies needn't be coherent to be affecting, and the best art provokes emotions not easily rendered in language.
'Every scene groans with oppressive dread and glitters with black humour.'
Audience Reviews for Mulholland Drive
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- Cowboy: A man's attitude... a man's attitude goes some ways. The way his life will be. Is that somethin' you agree with?
- Adam Kesher: Sure.
- Cowboy: Now... did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear, or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right?
- Adam Kesher: I agree with what you said, truthfully.
- Cowboy: What'd I say?
- Adam Kesher: Uh... that a man's attitude determines, to a large extent, how his life will be.
- Cowboy: So since you agree, you must be someone who does not care about the good life.
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- Adam Kesher: This is the girl.
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- Coco Lenoix: You know, there was a man that lived here once that had a prize-fighting kangaroo. Well, you just wouldn't believe what that kangaroo did to this courtyard!
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- Cowboy: When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But that lead girl is "not" up to you. Now you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me, two more times, if you do bad. Good night.
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- Cowboy: When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But that lead girl is "not" up to you. Now you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me, two more times, if you do bad. Good night.
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Foreign Titles
- Mulholland Drive - Straße der Finsternis (DE)
- El camino de los sueños (ES)
