Tat masquerading as art

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2002)

This seems to be what Canal+ (the backers of this movie) would call a December film. Canal+ is bound by French law to give 3% of their profits to film making. Come to them with a story in June and they will consider it carefully and politely show you the door. Come back in December and they are desperate to unload the rest of their budget and will back any ill-conceived mish-mash of ideas, even a failed TV pilot already rejected in the States.
I know, I know the critics have raved about this movie, but they also rave about paint splashed on canvas by chimpanzees. Ignore them, never have cinema seats seems so hard, never has two hours seemed so long. Excellent cinematography and good acting performances do not equal a good film as Lynch pulls tricks out of his stock rag-bag of ideas.
And film finanaciers, I beg you, stop confusing tat for art and stop giving this man money. Surely Eraserhead warned you of what was to come?