Lynch wastes his genius again

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2002)

Is it too much to ask a film to have something vaguely resembling a narrative?
I've been to video art shows, and I've appreciated much of what I've seen and been exposed to at art-film showings. In Mulholland Dr. Lynch again proves his skills as cinematographer far exceed his skills as an alleged director.
The film is all of these things: visually appealing, intellectually engaging, thought-provoking, sexually arousing--how it got the R and not the NC-17 is beyond--and just fine with--me. However, like some other efforts of Lynch's, Mulholland Dr. is less an unfolding expository than it is a collection of more or less disjointed scenes with the same characters in them.
Or maybe I just don't smoke enough weed.