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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Mulholland Drive
(2001)


Rating: 100%

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Original screenplay
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141 minutes (Uncut)
Review Format:
Digital: DVD
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2001
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Predominant Genre:
Mystery
Directors:
Directors

David Lynch
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Outstanding Performances



Rebekah DEL RIOChad EVERETTMelissa GEORGE
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Outstanding Performances



Lee GRANTAnn MILLERNaomi WATTS
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Premiss:
An aspiring actress meets and befriends an amnesiac woman hiding in an apartment belonging to the former’s aunt.
Themes:
Advertising | Alienation | Art | Corporate Power | Cowardice | Curiosity | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Friendship | Hollywood | Identity | Ideology | Loneliness | Love | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Paranoia | Parasitism | Passivity | Personal | Political | Political Correctness | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Solipsism | The West | Western culture | White culture | White people
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Awards:
Awards & honors

Hollywood for beginners

David Lynch’s 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller:

  1. Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: At least two clues are revealed before the credits;
  2. Notice appearances of the red lampshade;
  3. Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again?
  4. An accident is a terrible event – notice the location of the accident;
  5. Who gives a key? And why?
  6. Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup;
  7. What is felt, realized & gathered at the Club Silencio?
  8. Did talent, alone, help Camilla?
  9. Note the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkie’s.
  10. Where is Aunt Ruth?
Image of David Lynch film director. Reprinted on Mulholland Drive.

Summary: The Surreal Dream‑world of Caucasians.

Mannered, surreal, often first‑person mystery (sometimes changing who the person is) that actually works.

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(http://sevendaycinema.blogspot.co.uk)

Initially somnolent, it grows on you to become a hypnotic tale of schizophrenia and failure. What at first seems trite – complete with weirdness for its own sake – becomes a profound exploration of the nature of both cinema and real‑life alienation with the two seen as necessary concomitants.

The ever‑excellent Naomi WATTS plays the ingénue character needed to drive a somewhat absurd plot without forcing the audience to ask why she simply doesn’t call the police from the get‑go.

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(http://plisskensmovies.blogspot.co.uk)

The film is really too long and the pace a little too sluggish, but it is a subtle satire on the Hollywood version of the White American Dream that stands favorable comparison with illustrious forebears like Sunset Blvd.: Its characters live in a fantasy world of dreams‑of‑escape that finally lead nowhere but an early grave.

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