Amazon.co.uk Review
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. --
Fionn Meade
DVD Description
DVD Special Features:
Theatrical Trailer
Cast and Crew Biographies
Cast and Crew Interviews (including David Lynch)
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