Directed by David Lynch
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Absurda/Ryko)
The first hour and a half has a plot that, relatively speaking, is easy to follow: an actress is hired for a film, she goes to the set and rehearses with her leading man, filming begins. At some point the actress, played by Laura Dern, walks into a room on the set and becomes the character in her film. For the next hour and a half, dream logic takes over, the past, present and future are blurred, even the camera's point-of-view is challenged. The film (not Inland Empire) is a remake of an old Polish movie, left unfinished because the two lead actors were murdered, an act destined to be repeated. There is one scene where the camera seamlessly pans from a Hollywood street to a snowy one in Poland. Later, after a dramatic murder, the camera pulls back to reveal another camera filming the scene we just watched. Dern walks into a movie theater and watches herself on the big screen. For the final scene, we watch a television screen, in it a woman is watching a television screen, and so on.... Disorienting, exhausting, but exhilarating: a work of pure cinema.
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