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MULHOLLAND DRIVE

David Lynch United States, 2001
Part mind-bending mystery, part hair-raising thriller, part tear-jerking break-up soapfest, David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE evokes an aura of nocturnal wonder and dread, a realm caught between the parameters of waking life and dreams, achingly poignant in its emotional core, absolutely hypnotizing in it's formal ambiance, and sometimes-frustratingly labyrinthine in its thorny construction.
September 29, 2017
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The arc of Mulholland Dr. tells what it's like to love someone, then miss her once she's gone. It manifests itself in the onscreen actions of the film's lead actresses, Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring. This blue-eyed blonde and brown-eyed brunette share their mutual arousal, their tears, and their terror. They're the heart of a melodrama that doesn't demand to be solved so much as felt.
June 23, 2017
In keeping reality at arm's length, cinema sustains us because of, rather than in spite of, its essentially deceptive nature. As long as the lights stay down and the song keeps playing, we at once rehearse and delay our reckoning with the things that exist beyond the frame. Mulholland Drive is great film art because it fully inhabits its chosen medium while reminding us how ephemeral it is in the end. Cinema – and life – is but a dream. The rest is Silencio.
March 26, 2017
Her turn as Betty until that point so perfectly calibrated to the all-surface role of the would-be starlet, Watts' performance of that scene, in that scene, seems to freight her character with a significance that reappears with equal intensity only in the late stages of the film, after she has transformed into "Diane Selwyn," the paranoiac whose guilt is ostensibly responsible for dreaming up Mulholland Dr.'s whole first section.
December 24, 2015
Trafic
...If the film resonates long after these questions have been answered, it is because they are somewhat beside the point. Much more than an enigma to be cracked, Mulholland Dr. takes as its subject the very act of solving: the pleasurable and perilous, essential and absurd process of making narrative sense, of needing and creating meaning.
November 3, 2015
It wasn't conceived as a movie, and often doesn't look like one, with tight shots and occasionally flat lighting that betray its origins as a late '90s network TV pilot, and clear aesthetic breaks with the scenes added after arthouse super-producer Alain Sarde financed additional filming. Yet Mulholland Dr. now stands as one of the best and most popular examples of the big screen's unique flair for experiences that are simultaneously tantalizing and unresolvable.
October 28, 2015
As magnificent as those predecessors [Persona and 3 Women] are, only in Lynch's incomparable movie, following a logic that is at once elusively oneiric and emotionally intelligible, is a whole shadow history of Hollywood—that of actresses who loved other actresses, of the shame and humiliation so many of them endured both professionally and personally—tenderly and tragically excavated.
October 27, 2015
Like Betty, Lynch is in love with his fantasies, but he recognizes many of them, particularly as shaped by corporate Hollywood, to be built on nightmares, complicating the pleasure they bring. With this epic tapestry, one of the richest, finest, and most bottomless of all films, Lynch channeled the elusive and contradictory textures of desire, moving beyond either/or dichotomies of good and evil or black and white. Or brunette and blonde.
October 26, 2015
The film's story starts off as one thing, and is then totally corrupted and becomes something else — or rather, it becomes many different things. Narrative logic departs and the subconscious, the fantastical, the horrific starts to take over. In many ways, that's what makes Mulholland Drive so tantalizing to look at in terms of genre: At times it seems to be about the very boundary between horror and thriller.
October 23, 2014
Mulholland Drive is deeply informed by, and in some sense about, the process by which one ingratiates oneself in the film industry. There are the similarities, both superficial and deep-seated, to Sunset Boulevard (the respective films' titles, the murder mysteries, and so on and so forth).
October 8, 2014
Widely anointed one of the most significant films of the aughts, MULHOLLAND DR. gleefully resists intellectual interpretation at every turn; an emotional tour de force that borrows from the body genres as liberally as from noir.
February 17, 2012
The King Bulletin
In many ways, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is a cinematic achievement for the ages. It is a magical film, with sets sure to take the breath away of any film lover. The soundtrack from Lynch regular Angelo Badalamenti is nothing short of brilliant, and the cinematography of Peter Deming is on the same artistic level. There is an immense feeling of captivation while watching this film, and that is the cornerstone of the experience.
February 10, 2010