Genres:
Mystery
Avant-garde / Experimental
Theatrical Release: 12/06/2006(USA
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time:
Flags: Mild Violence, Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Rhino Home Video
Cinema of the surreal icon
David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature
Mulholland Drive with this dark
mystery, shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder. It is the tale of an actress whose personality becomes increasingly fragmented as she delves ever deeper into her work for a high-profile filmmaker.
Kingsley (
Jeremy Irons) is a director looking to adapt for the screen a Polish gypsy folktale that was previously stalled when the two leads were viciously murdered. Having offered the female lead to devoted actress
Nikki (
Laura Dern),
Kingsley warns her male co-star,
Devon (
Justin Theroux), to maintain his professional distance, as
Nikki's husband (
Peter J. Lucas) is known to be notoriously possessive. As the passionate co-stars quickly cross the line and become lovers,
Nikki's slowly slipping sense of reality causes her to eventually become lost in her character while the mysterious story of a Polish couple and a trio of giant stage-bound rabbits (voices of
Naomi Watts,
Scott Coffey, and
Laura Harring) lounge around on the sofa and tend to their domestic duties. Shot over the course of two and a half years and without a formalized script,
Lynch's hallucinogenic look at a doomed film project features all of the abstract imagery and strange symbolism that have long made the director a favorite of film fans who embrace his disorienting approach to unconventional storytelling. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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