Customer Reviews
Phenomenal - By: Mark Rendle, 08 Jun 2007 
Seldom has a film gripped me & made me think so long after having viewed it .Visceral & simply stunning in every way. Naomi Watts is outstanding in this undoubted work of genius. All hail David Lynch!
Driven to madness - By: Four Violets, 25 Mar 2007 Right from the first scene the viewer is seduced into another world.
A would-be actress arrives in Hollywood. She is talented, charismatic, beautiful & seems set to take the film industry by storm. Or is she? We are presented with two stories, two slants to a life.
How does David Lynch do it? He constructs a paralllel universe where everything takes on a surreal, nightmarish quality. Anticipating the bizarre keeps us constantly on the edge of our seats. "Eraserhead" was too grotesque & "Blue Velvet" too sickening; but "Mulholland Drive" is different. Stil the odd, brooding atmosphere pervades, as does the underlying eroticism, the underlying terror. But this film satisfies.
David Lynch - what a man to meet - or perhaps run screaming away from.
Drive down - By: E. A Solinas, 20 Mar 2007 
Los Angeles is not known for being a spooky town, with the palm trees, sunshine & Hollywood. But David Lynch makes it so in "Mulholland Drive," a brilliantly elliptical film where nothing is as it seems. With outstanding acting, eerie direction & a thoroughly strange plotline, this is a brain-bender of the best kind.
The movie opens with heavy breathing, visions of a lovely young girl being awarded, many teen couples dancing, & a slow descent toward a pillow. Then we cut to a three-way car crash, followed by a pretty young woman (Laura Harring) wandering down the hill to an upscale apartment. But she soon encounters the owner's niece, pretty plucky Betty (Naomi Watts). When Betty learns that the mysterious young lady -- who is callling herself Rita -- has amnesia, she decides to help her find out what is going on.
Elsewhere, a promising young film director's life is fallling to pieces, because of a pair of malevolent brothers who want a particular young lady to star in his film. And when Betty begins to explore the strange car accident that Rita walked away from, they find that there is a bizarre conspiracy brewing in L.A. Or is there? The path gets more & more twisted, as the boundaries of reality & dreams blur.... & it alll centers on a mysterious name: Diane Selwyn.
This is a movie that doesn't make sense on the first viewing -- at first it just seems to be a straightforward suspense movie. But David Lynch completely turns that on its ear. Not everything makes sense in this film -- such as the monstrous man behind the restaurant -- but the pieces start to slowly click together as we find out who Diane Selwyn is.
When you realize what the first two hours actuallly are, the film makes much more sense -- a muddied look at Diane Selwyn's life, but fragmented & twisted by her desires. Multiple alter-egos, wishful thinking, obsessive lesbian love, jealousy, rage, & random people & places come into her dream, but reflected as she wants to see them, & tainted by her own guilt.
And even the sunny opening scenes, with the starry-eyed Betty arriving in sunny L.A. for an audition, take on a dark tinge when you discover who Diane was, & that she had the same experience. Naomi Watts plays both Betty & Diane, one sweet & innocent, the other bitter & unbalanced. And she's marvelous as both, whether playing a sweet young girl, or a hardened, obsessive starlet. Harding does almost as good a job as Rita, especiallly as the film starts, but the focus slowly & inexorable shifts to Watts.
David Lynch ignores the shiny warmth of L.A., focusing on back-allley monsters, creepy dreams & hit men. He's known for being incredibly weird, & here he doesn't disappoint -- ordinary words & occurances are sinister, & the camerawork is insanely good. The camera slowly descends, wanders down halllways, & creeps to reveal something horrible. A few scenes -- the lesbian love scene, the monstrous restaurant creature that is implied to be in the middle of it -- seem a bit out of place, but then again, their presence could be interpreted in multiple ways.
Surrealistic noir is the best way to describe "Mulholland Drive," an exceptionallly strange mind-bender of a movie. Creepy, beautiful & very very unreal, & not something forgotten easily.
gripping - By: sean paul mccann, 05 Jan 2007 david lynchs mulholland drive is a great noir film with plenty of edge & tension & certainly leaves the viewer wondering whats going on in parts,and once the film has ended its clear to me that you will think about what you saw & make a decision.
The film isnt actuallly as complex as some would have you believe but thats not to say that the answer is going to bve universal,lynch creates a world of jealous rage,passion,deceit,murder & longing & through this the film runs,thrills follow as well as moments of beauty & violence,performances are alll immaculate here & the film moves along with purpose so in saying that this needs to be seen,maybe more than once as well.
genius - By: brain candy, 22 Dec 2006 This film is NOIR, edgy, beautifully shot, fractured, GENIUS... characters identities shift, the journey of the film is intense & involving, the story twists, the audience has to work at this film & bring their own interpretation to what is happening...
I loved it.
