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- The championing of the nebulous spirit of independent cinema is a theme that has been apparent in much of Lynch’s work but is perhaps most apparent in Mulholland Drive due to the film being a ‘poisoned valentine’ to Hollywood.
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Aug 26, 2016 · One aspect of the film that helps give it a timeless quality is the way it looks both forward and backward, serving as a kind of “poisoned valentine” to Hollywood, according to Chang.
- Graham Winfrey
Mar 10, 2022 · "Mulholland Drive" is, to this critic's eye, a kind of a love/hate letter to Los Angeles, and to the film industry in particular. J. Hoberman in The Village Voice called it a poisonous...
- Witney Seibold
I liked Mulholland Drive at first (saw it when it first came out) but it didn't blow me away. But I saw it again recently and I was amazed at how clever and interesting so many of the scenes are: the frightened man in the diner, the director and the cowboy, the repetition of "Silenzio!"
Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster.
Jul 5, 2018 · The most obvious explanation of the movie is that the actress Betty is actually Diane Selwyn. The first two-thirds of the film is actually a perfect fantasy that is created by Betty (Diane) played by Naomi Watts. In the real world, she is depressed, washed up and suicidal.
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Jan 27, 2021 · Mulholland Drive is so disquieting because it apocalyptically subverts two of the fundamental tropes of storytelling. It is starkly anti-cathartic, and it uses its dream-world scenario not to unravel a coherent truth but to expose a dark abyss at the heart of human affairs.
