"A love story in the city of dreams"

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2002)

The first time you see this movie you're not exactly quite sure what to think and that's because you were thinking WAY too hard. The entire plot was given to you in the film's tagline ("Love story in the city of dreams"), but instead of giving it to you in a straightforward way, or even a backwards way, David Lynch (nominated for his third acadamy award) seems to have decided to give it to you sideways.
*SPOILERS*
Mulholland Drive is about two lovers, both actresses, in Los Angeles. In a fit of jealous rage, one actress orders a hit on her lover (played by Naomi Watts), but the hit goes terribly wrong one night on Mulholland Drive, and the lover is stuck without a memory, desperately trying to figure out who she is and where she came from. She makes her way back to her lover's apartment, where the two are able to start with a "clean slate". The movie then jumps backwards and forwards in time with no apparant rhyme or reason, giving you short glimpses into these Hollywood Movie-Star lover's lives.
The film is quite brilliant and is David Lynch's masterpeice. Visually beautiful and dramatically triumphant, this is not a film to be missed.
10/10