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Genre: surrealist psychological horror.

Stars: Naomi Watts (American version of Ring), Laura Harring, Justin Theroux (apparently an Irish bad guy in the second Charlie’s Angels film).

Plot: a partially failed actress is dumped by the girlfriend who got her the few roles she ever had, for a man, and hires a hitman to have her killed. In her grief and guilt, she tries to reimagine her life in Hollywood with showbusiness gloss, but her dreams are haunted both by reality and terrifying symbols of death and dementia.

Why It’s Great:

  • The plot is more complex than the top two films combined in some sort of really complex way: it’s probably not possible for a human mind to grasp it on first viewing, and because of that it – like any David Lynch film – has been made artistically beautiful enough to work as a rationally unintelligible surrealist piece.
  • Dream is entangled almost inextricably with reality.
  • Dozens of ingenious crossovers and quirks crop up once you make sense of it.
 
 

Zeno Cosini: New Lynch film - Inland Empire - out next year. I'm pathetically over-excited already.

Jason L: I finally rented Mulholland Drive on your recommendation. I couldn't sit through it. Surrealism? Fine. Incoherence? Fine. But virtually every scene is composed of alternating shots of two people, talking flatly, about nothing, in the dark. Occasionally somebody gets chased. Utterly yuck.
 
 

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