Weird, Disturbing, Disjointed, Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2002)

David Lynch has confirmed himself the master of modern cinema in this weird, disturbing, disjointed, brilliant Film Noir. A film that takes such outmoded conventions as linear narrative and hurls them violently out the Window, Mulholland Drive is an exploration of conscious and subconscious that will leave you troubled and confused, but ultimately fulfilled as you piece together this pasticcio of one girl's memory (or justification for murder?). A veritable treatise on modern film, Lynch runs concurrent stories with overlapping characters that may or may not be related, fascination cultural cross-sections, seemingly meaningless asides, creepy porn-theater opera and the world's only Film Noir cowboy, and molds them in to a piece of cinema that critics will love or loathe, but that cinema buffs are required to see 4.5/5 Stars.