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Mulholland Dr., 2001

Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring

Directed by: David Lynch

Written by: Joyce Eliason

Language: English, Spanish

Country: France, USA

Runtime: 147 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:8.0

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Mulholland Dr. can be described as mind bending, atmospheric, and stylized. The plot revolves around memory loss, a mysterious character, and manipulation. The main genres are drama, independent, and mystery. In terms of style, Mulholland Dr. is postmodernist and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in Hollywood. Mulholland Dr. takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves strong sexual content and violent content.

Summary of Mulholland Dr.

David Lynch strikes again with this literal nightmare of a motion picture--a brilliant, scathing, hysterical, and haunting ode to Hollywood. In the film, a mysterious dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) emerges from an accident with a purse full of cash and a head full of amnesia. Meanwhile, Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a wide-eyed gal from Deep River, Ontario, has just landed in Los Angeles with dreams of movie super stardom. When Betty finds the nameless beauty in her aunt's apartment, she is deeply intrigued by the situation and offers to help her. This sends the two women on a bizarre search for the truth through the macabre, sun-soaked streets of the City of Angels, where the mob, a young film director (Justin Theroux), a studio executive with a tiny head, and an enigmatic figure named the Cowboy all float into the picture, then out again, until there is no longer any distinction between what is dream and what is reality.

Originally filmed as a pilot for ABC, Lynch's daring, open-ended vision was coldly rejected by the network. As he was about to abandon the project, French producer Pierre Edelman convinced Lynch to rethink it as a feature. The result is this stunning expression of the subconscious, a testament to the power of personal artistic vision.

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Language:	English, Spanish
Country:	France, USA
Release date:	October 2001
Runtime:	147 min
Awards:	Cannes

Awards

David Lynch for Best Director at the 2001 Cannes

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Naomi Watts

as Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn

Laura Elena Harring

as Rita

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Chicago Tribune

Like "Memento," Mulholland Drive is an amnesiac noir in the tradition that goes back to "Spellbound" and "Somewhere in the Night." Full Review

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by: Michael Wilmington

Salon.com

Lynch's Hollywood is a grand old girl, but she's one with some very treacherous curves. To trace the contours of her sensuality, you need a camera as sensitive as a set of fingertips. Lynch's is. Full Review

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by: Stephanie Zacharek

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If you live in the suburbs and like it there, don't queue this movie. Everyone else should bump it right to the top. You'll be glad you did. Though my friend suggested the explanation for all the utterly bizarre plot turns, I like not believing... Read and rate it

06.September.2010
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by: jamidwyer
jamidwyer rated this movie10/10Must See

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan
ColumboFan rated this movie0/10

In 1999, David Lynch filmed a pilot for ABC that had the makings of being the next "Twin Peaks"- a mysterious, complex, well shot series that would peter out after 10 episodes. ABC passed, and the pilot footage makes up about three quarters of this movie. For the other quarter, Lynch tacked on some topless scenes and an elaborate "it-was-all-a-dream" ending, and released it as a feature film. The result is a well-acted fiasco. Lynch just stuffed the numerous story threads and characters intended for a season of television into a 30 minute coda, changed their names around, and gave it a dreamy arty topcoat. It's a mess, but I guess you could imagine it's a movie about a nightmarish Hollywood dream factory if you squint your eyes, and accept a plot device that hasn't really worked since "The Wizard of Oz". But then the story takes an odd twist. Critics began hailing it as one of the best films of the last decade. Huh? It popped up on many top ten lists. I thought maybe they meant "Mulholland Falls" with Nick Nolte. Surely there must be a mix-up, they couldn't mean THIS movie. They did though, so, dumbfounded, I watched it again to make sure I didn't miss anything. Well, I didn't, and this time I REALLY noticed how hard Lynch labors to cram everyone into the ending. He changes their names, gives them all wholly different relationships and even shrinks some down to thimble size. He's so surreal. Any characters he has left over he just throws in as an extra for a dinner party scene. I'll give Lynch credit for audacity, and some grudging respect for hoodwinking the critics, but this movie still doesn't make any sense and its artistic merits are HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE. But, hey, if you subscribe to the school of thought that movies can mean whatever you want them to mean - like jittery Rorschadt blots - and don't care to get bogged down in coherence, then this is for you. And don't miss Lynch's "Inland Empire". That one will have you peeing your pants it's so open-ended.

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan

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