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Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say David Lynch, in Mulholland Drive, indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams," Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates, and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we've become enthralled by the film's two main characters: the daz
Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say David Lynch, in Mulholland Drive, indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams," Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates, and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we've become enthralled by the film's two main characters: the dazed and sullen femme fatale, Rita (Laura Elena Harring), and the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario (played exquisitely by Naomi Watts) who decides to help Rita regain her memory. Triggered by a rapturous Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," Lynch's best film since Blue Velvet splits glowingly into two equally compelling parts. --Fionn Meade
This sexy thriller has been acclaimed as one of the year s best films. Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mystery and ensnared in an equally dangerous web of erotic passion. There s nothing like this baby anywhere! This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of the year. Visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore s lip gloss! says Rolling Stone s Peter Travers. See it then see it again! (Time Out New York)
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Running Time 147 Min
Format: DVD MOVIE
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Release date: 9 April 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780783266824 UPC: 025192178023
Tags: Drama (7), Mystery (6), Thriller (5), Suspense (4), Hollywood (3), Fantasy (2), Psychological (2), Show Business (2), Quirky (2), California (2), Los Angeles (2), Action/adventure (2), Rental (2), 0036 (2), Twisted (2), Dramas (2), May (2), Spindle 1 (2), Essential Cinema (2), 2001 (1)
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