![]() After a car wreck, an amnesiac woman sets out to learn. It’s strange, exhilarating, and haunting, a requiem for every Hollywood dream that never comes true. With Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller. No matter how many know-it-all explainers you read, its corners will never fit together neatly: There are too many ragged edges, and too many that shift shape even as you scrutinize them. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apartment. I think that Persona is a much better film but I loved Mulholland Drive and think that it definitely deserves the acclaim, especially because its an adaptation of one of my favorite foreign films. It’s a movie filled with mystery, and with mysterious interlocking pieces. A dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) is left amnesiac after a car crash. Mulholland Drive is David Lynchs Neo-noir take on Bergmans film Persona. is about our need to control our destiny crashing with the realization that it’s impossible to manage it fully. David Lynchs Mulholland Drive (2001), often stylized as Mulholland Dr., constitutes a perplexing journey along the slippery isles of the human subconscious. The first stage is the mystery style detective genre with Betty and Rita. At a certain flashpoint, this Hollywood dream becomes a nightmare-yet, for all its malevolence, Lynch’s nightmare Hollywood is just as seductive as the magical dream. The whole idea of this theory can be explained in two stages of the film. No sooner has she unlocked the door of her borrowed flat when her fate blurs with that of a mystery woman she finds there-taking a shower!-Laura Elena Harring’s slow-burning temptress Rita. Blond, bright-eyed Betty ( Naomi Watts) has just arrived in Hollywood from Smalltown, USA, ready for stardom. suggests that those dreams never die, even after the people who clung to them draw their last death. Surreal mystery drama by David Lynch in which an aspiring actress finds herself involved in a strange and sinister conspiracy. Everyone goes to Hollywood with a dream, and Mulholland Dr. It’s also one of the most visually beautiful films ever made, set in a modern-day Hollywood where the ghosts of the old one continue to walk among us, superimposed over everyday life. Injured and in shock, she descends into Los Angeles. has magic powers that put your head into a very weird place. A dark-haired woman (Laura Helena Harring) escapes her own murder, surviving a car accident on Mulholland Drive. With its liquid pacing and codeine-glorious imagery, Mulholland Dr. It is the stuff which dreams and delusions are made of. ![]() It is a fantasia of illusion and identity, a meditation on the mystery of casting in art as in life: the vital. It is psychotically lucid, oppressively strange, but with a powerfully erotic and humanly intimate dimension that Lynch never quite achieved elsewhere. We’d barely gotten our footing in the new century when David Lynch rode in with a movie that would jostle us right off it. Mulholland Drive is one of those cinematic marvels which come once in a decades. Mulholland Drive is as brilliant and disquieting as anything Lynch has ever done. ![]()
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