Synopsis

Mulholland Drive is David Lynch’s Sunset Boulevard. The story is set in contemporary Hollywood. A young woman arrives in town with high hopes to become an actress.

She meets a brunette who has apparently lost her memory. They bond and eventually they cross the path of a promising filmmaker whose career and private life is increasingly caught up in a web of gangsters and mad moguls.



Lynch does not only parody the industry in many ways, he simultaneously demonstrates a great faith in the powers of the medium.

Skillfully he guides us along a sinuous trajectory between past and present, dream and reality.

Originally conceived as a trailer for a TV series, the scenario keeps introducing new, weird characters every ten minutes or so, and eventually abandons all hope of closure in a freakish finale that directly connects with the most vibrant hallucinations of Twin Peaks.

If the magic cube acts like a Macguffin, one could also see an ironic reference to the game industry. In fact, David Lynch has recently launched his own website (www.davidlynch.com) with some specially designed series.

Considered to be one of the most uncompromising auteurs within contemporary American cinema, Lynch proves to be also one of the most ironically clever entrepreneurs in the field.

And an artist whose imagination can manifest itself in a variety of mediums. –IFFR

Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe, Robert Forster, Katharine Towne

Cannes (In Competition): Best Director, London (Film on the Square), New York (Centerpiece), Toronto, Rotterdam (What (is) Cinema?), Vancouver