STARRING: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts & Robert Forster
Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in Mulholland Drive David Lynch 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.
ITEM SPECIFICS
Region: | 2 - Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC), South Africa, Middle East | Rating: | 15 | Year: | 2001 | Duration: | 140 minutes | Label: | Optimum | Ratio: | Widescreen | Cast: | Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Dan Hedaya, Robert Forster, Mark Pellegrino, Brent Briscoe, Laura Harring, Scott Wulff, Maya Bond, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rita Taggart, Angelo Badalamenti & Melissa George
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