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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 148
Fresh: 120
Rotten:28
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus: Mulholland Drive makes little sense, even for a Lynch film, but its dreamlike imagery is mesmerizing, and Watts delivers a great performance.
Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 8, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $7,077,663
Synopsis: David Lynch strikes again with this literal nightmare of a motion picture--a brilliant, scathing, hysterical, and haunting ode to Hollywood. In the film, a mysterious dark-haired woman (Laura Elena... David Lynch strikes again with this literal nightmare of a motion picture--a brilliant, scathing, hysterical, and haunting ode to Hollywood. In the film, a mysterious dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) emerges from an accident with a purse full of cash and a head full of amnesia. Meanwhile, Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a wide-eyed gal from Deep River, Ontario, has just landed in Los Angeles with dreams of movie super stardom. When Betty finds the nameless beauty in her aunt's apartment, she is deeply intrigued by the situation and offers to help her. This sends the two women on a bizarre search for the truth through the macabre, sun-soaked streets of the City of Angels, where the mob, a young film director (Justin Theroux), a studio executive with a tiny head, and an enigmatic figure named the Cowboy all float into the picture, then out again, until there is no longer any distinction between what is dream and what is reality. Originally filmed as a pilot for ABC, Lynch's daring, open-ended vision was coldly rejected by the network. As he was about to abandon the project, French producer Pierre Edelman convinced Lynch to rethink it as a feature. The result is this stunning expression of the subconscious, a testament to the power of personal artistic vision. [More]
Starring: Laura Harring, Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller
Starring: Laura Harring, Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Robert Forster, Dan Hedaya, Billy Ray Cyrus, Michael J. Anderson, Michele Hicks, Monty Montgomery
Director: David Lynch
Director: David Lynch
Screenwriter: Joyce Eliason, David Lynch
Producer: Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Studio: Universal Focus
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Reviews for Mulholland Dr.
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; it also put Naomi Watts on the map
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.
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