David Lynch's first film since the award-winning "Mulholland Drive" is a complex Hollywood mystery which blurs the lines between fantasy and reality.
David Lynch's labyrinthine "Inland Empire" is a powerful culmination of his themes of identity fragmentation, Hollywood satire, and the treatment of women in contemporary culture and media. Laura Dern is the star and center of this film, playing multiple layered roles, with the boundaries between her different identities not always clear. She is a Hollywood actress taking on a challenging part for her comeback, a married Southern belle conducting an affair, a Los Angeles street prostitute, and an abused wife telling her story to a shadowy man whose goal is unclear. All these identities tend to overlap and blend into each other, and furthermore to bleed into yet another story concerning a murdered prostitute in turn of the century Poland. The film is hallucinatory in its structure as well as its imagery, and the crisp digital quality of the images only contributes to the strangeness and terror of the film. It's a series of disconnected horrific sequences, with each one inducing a feeling of creeping dread even when the source of this fear is totally unclear. The film uses the visual language of a horror movie while almost entirely abandoning narrative conventions, and the result is a harrowing and enveloping experience that lingers in memory long after it's over. This one-disc version is missing some of the great extras that truly enhance the film, so it's not as highly recommended as the two-disc version. But for those who just want the film itself without any frills, this one is certainly a worthy buy.
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David Lynch drama. Lynch breaks a long silence with a challenging piece of cinema about an actress going through some psychological trauma on the set of her latest film. Laura Dern plays Nikki Grace - an ingénue actress whose latest role - in a Tennessee Williams-esque fright of a film tests her to her limits. The director Kingsley Stewart (Jeremy Irons) is a cloying, creepy character. Grace is falling for her co-star Devon Berk (Justin Theroux) but if that was the central plot, this wouldn't be Lynch-land, would it? A parallel storyline shows an earlier attempt to make this film in Poland which ended in tragedy when the two lead players were offed. It's just shy of three hours of David Lynch at his eccentric, unpredictable best.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. David Lynch's first film since the award-winning Mulholland Drive (and his first shot completely on digital) is a complex Hollywood mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality and features an astonishing performance by Laura Dern. Dern plays Nikki Grace, an actress preparing for her biggest role yet, a Hollywood movie from an acclaimed director (played by Jeremy Irons) opposite an amorous leading man (Justin Theroux). But when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed polish production that was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy.
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