Mystifying Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (2 June 2015)

Stunning visually and emotionally, this is this auteur's incredible saga of an innocent girl in Hollywood pursuing dreams and finding herself in a nightmare. Filled with fascinating cinematic touches and innumerable stylistically mesmerizing film moments that are simply too many to count. Often its all overwhelming in its twisting of reality and bizarre side trips. It is nothing less than a pure celebration of the personal film maker and illustrates what motion picture art is capable of when an artist is given leave to fulfill his vision. Director Lynch can be self-indulgent at times but that's not the case here. Haunting imagery and individual screen moments will stay with the audience all their lives because they are so powerful. Just to pick one is when the two young women protagonists visit an all night Los Angeles theater and Spanish singer Rebekah Del Rio performs a spine chilling rendition of Roy Orbison's "Crying." It's one of the most strangely moving scenes ever filmed and will bring tears to the eyes of anyone with a soul. A disturbing, beautiful film that is flawed yet sublime, it is what's sometimes called a "chipped masterpiece."