Would Give It a Better Review if I Had not Already Seen"Celine and Julie Go Boating"

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2013)

Technically exquisite movie, like everything that Lynch does. However, about half way through, I started thinking about the 1970s French film "Celine and Julie Vont En Bateau" aka "Celine and Julie Go Boating." Now, when you redo a creative masterpiece, you are expected to one up the creative masterpiece---by adding some twist that the original did not contain, for instance. Pointing up a flaw in the original and fixing it. Maybe playing on the viewers expectations.
This one did not quite do that. A really good film makes you want to go back and watch it again right away. This film makes me want to watch "Celine and Julie" again. To see why I remember it (Celine and Julie) as being brilliant and this one as being just pretty good and fairly clever and a pleasant way to pass the evening but nothing new.
Probably would have made a very good TV series. I enjoyed the first half much more than the "let's explain it all now and show how clever the writer/director was" ending. Which means that Lynch is better at dishing out bizarre slice of life than he is as explaining life the universe and everything.