Inland Empire Inland Empire

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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.

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

Director

David Lynch

Producers

Laura Dern David Lynch Mary Sweeney Marek Zydowicz Keith Kjarval

Writer

David Lynch

Editor

David Lynch

Cinematography

David Lynch

Art Direction

Christina Ann Wilson

Sound

David Lynch

Studios

Fundacja Kultury Camerimage Festival Absurda Asymmetrical Productions Inland Empire Productions StudioCanal

Countries

Poland USA France

Languages

English Polish

Alternative Titles

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

mystery drama thriller fantasy

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  • 김가만세샤이니만세

    Review by 김가만세샤이니만세 ★★★★★

    the best cinema 4eva

  • Matt Perez

    Review by Matt Perez ★★★½

    What the fuck

  • Lukey Spooky

    Review by Lukey Spooky

    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

  • gabrelmcflip

    Review by gabrelmcflip ★★★½

    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…

  • Asjad

    Review by Asjad ★★★★ 18

    David lynch is a fucking lunatic that should be locked up in a porn theatre for life

  • grifft

    Review by grifft ★★½

    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...

  • Thomas Darragh

    Review by Thomas Darragh ★★★★★

    I’m not too keen on thinking about tomorrow, and today’s slipping by. 

  • marco bermudez

    Review by marco bermudez ★★★★

    David Lynch - Ranked

    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…

  • Hassan Quesni

    Review by Hassan Quesni ★★★

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  • David Melean

    Review by David Melean ★★

    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.

  • James Costa

    Review by James Costa

    Absolutely lost as how to rate this. It’s super ambitious and Dern is fantastic, but damn is it a bit much.

  • Fimbley

    Review by Fimbley ★★½

    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…