Synopsis
A woman in trouble
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
2006 Directed by David Lynch
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Laura Dern Jeremy Irons Justin Theroux Karolina Gruszka Krzysztof Majchrzak Jan Hencz Grace Zabriskie Ian Abercrombie Amanda Foreman Peter J. Lucas Harry Dean Stanton Cameron Daddo Neil Dickson Diane Ladd William H. Macy Stanislaw Kazimierz Cybulski Henryka Cybulski Julia Ormond Jordan Ladd Kristen Kerr Mary Steenburgen Masuimi Max Robert Charles Hunter Terry Crews Nastassja Kinski Laura Harring Scott Coffey Naomi Watts Emily Stofle
Fundacja Kultury Camerimage Festival Absurda Asymmetrical Productions Inland Empire Productions StudioCanal
Внутренняя империя, Inland Empire - Eine Frau in Schwierigkeiten, L'impero della mente, 內陸帝國, INLAND EMPIRE, Inland Empire - L'impero della mente, The Green Room in Lodz
i feel like david lynch is directing my life because nothing makes any fucking sense
Lynch on frequent collaborator Dean Hurley in the DVD special features: "I really don't like Dean as a person but he's a fantastic sound man."
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch for some reason is insistent on the capitalisation of the title) is an experience to say the least. Whether you view it as one of Lynch's best movies or an elaborate joke on the audience depends on how you view the director’s work as a whole. I am unapologetic in my love of Lynch and whilst I am not quite blind to his faults I am very much a fanboy. For this reason, INLAND EMPIRE is a work of mind-fucking brilliance.
It is one of the most indulgent, mental and disorienting films I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It is a film that demands and contradicts interpretation which means it works best when letting the…
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Guess this wasn't for me.....
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damn my life a digital video stream-of-consciousness nightmare fr 😂
lynch's Dangerous Game (1993).
"I'm trying to tell you so's you'll understand how it went. The thing is, I don't know what was before or after. I don't know what happened first, and it's kinda laid a mindfuck on me."
Inland Empire is the most experimental and nonlinear of David Lynch's already experimental and nonlinear body of work. The fact that the most popular review of it here on LB at the moment is just a question mark says a lot about how accessible it is (i.e. not at all). The easiest way to describe it is as a movie about an actress who takes a role that makes her begin to question and then eventually lose her sense of the difference between performance…
Lynch's celluloid films have always had a velvety, clear vision at odds with the haziness of their contents. Inland Empire flips that by using low-grade digital to create the smeary, incoherent, oneiric look that his movies always achieved tonally. Rewatching this film after the last few Malick movies, I see some parallels: for all the incomprehensible montage and jump cuts and half-articulated ideas and plots, the core of the movie is nothing but cliché. We have Hollywood as evil, actress/character persona swap, abuse, the many ways in which men prey upon women (including directing them, foregrounding one of the most common early critiques lobbed against Lynch himself).
But what emerges is a bold refraction of these tropes and topics into…
The most David Lynch of all of David Lynch's films.
A marauding masterpiece.
A plethora of powerful pictures.
Inland Empire is Incredibly Exhausting.
"I figured one day I'd just wake up and and find out what the hell yesterday was all about. I'm not too keen on thinkin' about tommorow. And today's slipping by."
An amazing and admirable
piece of filmmaking, even
if it's not your cup of tea.
A meditation on the state of contemporary entertainment, the hardships of love and sexuality, the darkness that lives within the heart, the fragility of the human psyche, the phenomenon of memory, self-identity/self-perception, gender roles, mortality, and the complex relationship between the art of filmmaking and reality.
Oh, and it has one of the greatest soundscapes in cinema history.
Personally, it was right up my alley;
needless to say, my alley is pretty strange.
Decide for yourself.
Okay, so I have no idea how to approach this review and I’m not sure how to even rate it, I might eventually. This movie is the reason why David Lynch is one of my favourite filmmakers, it truly felt like I was watching a nightmare unfold and that first jumpscare was the only time I felt genuinely terrified while watching movie, no joke, I ran out of my room in pure terror and had to compose myself before coming back to it. Inland Empire wasn’t a movie, it was an experience that everyone should, well, experience at least once in their lives
I’ve seen enough David Lynch to know this film would derail into incomprehensible obscurity at some point, but to make a 3 hour feature that drops all coherence less than 1 hour into its runtime is an ambition I hadn’t even considered he'd attempt. Inland Empire is scene after scene of nightmarish horror, the scenario constantly metamorphosing, a host of characters appearing and reappearing in different guises with no real explanation given as to who they are.
It would grow tiresome were it not all so relentlessly unsettling; Lynch’s vision highlights the mysterious nature of existence and life's maze of pathways, where terror could hide round any corner. The camera's long lens distorts its subjects faces, the score is often…
David lynch is a fucking lunatic that should be locked up in a porn theatre for life
I had a dream about this film last night which I think is significant. This film has one of the best openings of any film I’ve ever seen. The ominous yet soft and comfortable anonymous, foreign language sex scene morphing into nondescript shapes and forms over Chrysta Bell's "Polish Poem" is so intriguing and deeply mystifying, it instantly hooks the viewer.
My overall problem is that this film is just too abstract for me, I'm sorry but that's the truth, about halfway through I lost all ability to comprehend what I was seeing or form any sort of coherent story in my head, random scenes make themselves known and then fade into nonexistence. A woman is in trouble...
It’s soo.....Łÿñçhīâń.
The last feature from Lynch that I had left to watch happened to be the last feature he made, Inland Empire is a long and headache-inducing epic that feel something like an amalgamation of Lynch’s filmography.
As a huge fan of his work, but also able to look at his work as objectively as I could, this makes almost no goddamn sense and I’m so relieved that a lot of people feel the same way. It’s self indulgent, the shitty camcorder-like camerawork and the plot loses itself constantly but it’s kind of....great??
Laura Dern really gives it her all in this meta reality bending psychological horror film that seems like it’s about to say something…
I’m absolutely certain that this was way too much for three hours or that I’m just ticked off I can’t seem to appreciate it. Do I respect it? Absolutely. I just find this to be a very very bitter cup of tea of which I don't care to drink.
Absolutely lost as how to rate this. It’s super ambitious and Dern is fantastic, but damn is it a bit much.
Weird for the sake of weird.
And so the bipolar trilogy comes to an end. I’m a little unsure as of what to give this as it’s got some interesting ideas, like on paper the core concept sounds really great and Laura Dern gives a good performance but I think this one is a little over experimental, in a bad way.
The thing is, mulholland Drive and Lost highway did these same sort of concepts, however they managed to achieve these with a much sleeker style and managed to feel like they had more of a heart (not to mention feeling so cinematic). This just feels like lazy leftover ideas from other movies. Yes the narrative structures of the other…
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