Style over substance

Rating: 9/10 (10 August 2002)

While I'd say that David Lynch is tops as a story-teller, as a story-writer, he is not so good. In some ways, the story of "Mulholland Drive" is naive and I think that, overall, the story is slight. But the way in which the story is told, via the visuals and the audios--if that's a word--is sublime. I am still intoxicated by the incidental scenes of Misses Elizabeth Lackey and Melissa George lip-sychning at the auditions, and of Miss Rebekah del Rio singing at the club.
The music of Angelo Badalamenti and the production design of Jack Fisk make this movie a feast for the eyes and the ears, and, and its end, though I felt the story itself to have been weak, I felt elated by the way in which it had been told.