A real masterpiece from a real master

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2004)

Some directors are good, some are bad, some are brilliant and some are real Gods. David Lynch is in this last category, his visual art is elegant and amazing, and his films are real masterpieces.
The first movie that I watched from this great movie master was Wild at Heart!!!! I was astonished, I felt like if I was in a gallery surrounded by beautiful paintings and wonderful pictures, I was in shock.
From that moment I felt the urgency, the big thirst of looking for all the past movies of Lynch. So that, I could have a big picture of his work.
I found everything about Lynch, from ERASERHEAD to TWIN PEAKS; I became a collector of his work. Every year, since he made FIRE WALK WITH ME, I was exciting waiting for his new work.
And then he made Lost Highway, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive.
All different movies, but with something in common, his director, his personal view and touch
David Lynch is a surrealist artist. Like Luis Buñuel, Lynch is one director who knows how to manage the strange, the noir, the dreams and the nightmares in his films. And he does it excellent, flawless!!!!
MULHOLLAND DR. is a brilliant movie, is the Lynch world at his best form.
The club El Silencio is a key place to understand the film. To love this masterpiece you don't have to be a Lynch's fan. You'll like it if you love good movies.
Laura Harring and Naomi Watts, both of them play two different characters, and that's why this movie is a puzzle.
Naomi Watts as Betty/Diane play a powerful character, her acting is thrilling. And this movie, at the start is her nightmare, and at the end is her true destiny.
Of course you'll find some strange characters, something usual in Lynch's movies. The Cowboy, Mr. Roque, The man behind Winkies and the Castigliane brothers. They are all created by Diane in her own dreams.
The performance of `Crying' by Rebekah del Rio, is devastating. This is a beautiful song written by the great Roy Orbison. She sings it without instruments, without orchestra.
Don't look for sense in this movie, like Lost Highway, this is a dream/nightmare that may mess up your sense of the right way movies goes on. Just watch it and enjoy it, which is the best you can do. Remember the real world of Diane is the last twenty five minutes of the movie, all the rest is her dream.
In this movie Lynch works with his regular collaborators: Angelo Badalamenti, (since Blue Velvet he started a rich relationship with the director) with a great original music; Peter Deming an excellent cinematography and Mary Sweeney with a flawless film editing.
This great film won several awards, Lynch won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film festival in the year 2001. Also he received an Academy Award Nomination.
Mulholland Drive is a fine masterpiece in visual art. This is real interaction between the movie and the audience, you can feel like if you are in a gallery, watching pictures.
David Lynch is with no doubt, one of the best directors in cinema history
This film deserves 10/10.