Not a Popcorn Movie, kids!

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2002)

I saw Mulholland Dr. yesterday as it was the opening week for it in my country, Spain. Well, as movie ended i was speechless; i thought Lynch was joking, we were all stupid and it had been a waste of time. Ten minutes later Lynch was a genius. Half an hour across that, a couple of beers and a great dinner took me to this point: How many recent directors (except Chris Nolan´s Memento) make you think about their movies after watching them? Bingo!! Lynch is Lynch, not a linear director as in The Straight Story (a joke about how simple the plot was on this one...?), and back to be a round and round upside down plot as Lost Highway was. True that Mulholland Dr. was firstly conceived as a pilot for ABC but if a movie makes me think and remember dialogues, shots or names it´s worth watching. I give it a 9.