Lynch at his best?

Rating: 9/10 (8 September 2001)

"Mulholland Drive" is closer to the "Lost Highway/Fire Walk With Me" Lynch than it is the "Blue Velvet/Wild At Heart" Lynch. Which is a shame because so many casual viewers of his work will likely be unable to penetrate the goings on of this latest film. A common complaint I have heard is that Lynch tells an interesting tale in Mulholland Drive but goes off the rails in the last 20 minutes and "just gets weird". But it's these last 20 minutes that throws the preceding 2 hours into a perspective that you wouldn't suspect, and you realize that the story you've been watching up until that point is... well, I won't give it away. Suffice to say that with a lacklustre summer behind us, it's reassuring that there's filmmakers out there who still take risks.