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.
Inland Empire
2006 Directed by David Lynch
Cast
Laura Dern Jeremy Irons Justin Theroux Harry Dean Stanton Karolina Gruszka Peter J. Lucas Krzysztof Majchrzak Jan Hencz Grace Zabriskie William H. Macy Ian Abercrombie Amanda Foreman Cameron Daddo Neil Dickson Diane Ladd Stanislaw Kazimierz Cybulski Henryka Cybulski Julia Ormond Jordan Ladd Terryn Westbrook Kristen Kerr Mary Steenburgen Masuimi Max Robert Charles Hunter Terry Crews Nastassja Kinski Laura Harring Scott Coffey Naomi Watts Show All…
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Studios
Fundacja Kultury Camerimage Festival Absurda Asymmetrical Productions Inland Empire Productions StudioCanal
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Alternative Titles
Inland Empire - Eine Frau in Schwierigkeiten, L'impero della mente, Inland Empire - L'impero della mente, Внутренняя империя, 內陸帝國, INLAND EMPIRE, The Green Room in Lodz
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i feel like david lynch is directing my life because nothing makes any fucking sense
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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."
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"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…
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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…
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damn my life a digital video stream-of-consciousness nightmare fr 😂
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The most David Lynch of all of David Lynch's films.
A marauding masterpiece.
A plethora of powerful pictures.
Inland Empire is Incredibly Exhausting.
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referring to my Mulholland Dr review from a couple months ago, if that was the pilot then this is the season one compilation film, or perhaps a collection of viral marketing webisodes. lynch transforms Mulholland's more "old hollywood " exploration of sexual exploitation (with its somewhat neater "shiny surface and dark underbelly" structure) for the ascendant age of digital cinema, where that grime and confusion and violence comes in a constant barrage of sound and vision. there's nothing seductive or charming about nikki's big break; even when she cheers having "gotten the part" the score is ominous and overbearing. obviously that early-internet vibe comes mainly from the grungy DV look, like the sort of hideously graphic footage which you once…
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"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.