Tres David Lynch

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2004)

Mulholland Drive can be summed up in two words: David Lynch.
The best thing about this are indeed Naomi Watts (the Patsy Kensit of the 00s) and Laura Harring, and their "moments" together.
If Naomi Watts never does anything else, she can use this movie as her resume, because she gets act pretty much any type there is.
The problem with this movie isn't just that it leaves the average moviegoer wondering what happened. It's that it is way too easy to just throw this disjointed "structure" at the audience. Of course, Lynch did all this before, especially in "Lost Highway" with Balthazar Getty/Bill Pullman and to a lesser extent "Blue Velvet" with Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper.
Basically Lynch looks at an event from multiple angles and multiple time frames, and then throws in a lot of stuff that just happens inside the main character's head. In that sense, Mulholland Drive is most like Lost Highway.
Does that make for a good movie? I don't think so. It is impossible to find a single sympathetic character in this mess. Because you don't care about the characters, it is hard to care about the movie as a whole. Or maybe I'm just not using the right drugs. I wonder what Lynch is on though.
I really do like Naomi Watts though, and Laura Harring was a revelation.