Mulholland Drive

Details: 2001, USA, Cert 15, 146 mins, Drama / Thriller, Dir: David Lynch

With: Justin Theroux, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts

Summary: A woman finds herself on Mulholland Drive outside Hollywood, suffering from amnesia. She befriends an aspiring actress and together they attempt to find out who she is.

Philip French

Philip French: ...as nightmarish and blackly comic as anything Lynch has made
Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw: It has an extraordinary atmosphere, a loopy, spacey persuasiveness, a lush visual invention, and a yearning score. Above all, it has a top-notch, all-stops-out, bells-ringing, lights-flashing star performance from Naomi Watts as the ingenue from Ontario.

A question of interpretation

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Nice film - if you can get it

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive may be a brilliant movie - but do even its biggest fans know what it's about? We challenged six top cinema critics to explain the plot.
Wild at art

Raised in respectable Middle America, his first love was painting but he found fame as the 'Tsar of the Bizarre', directing offbeat films which suggested something disturbing behind the picket fences and tranquil lawns of the US heartland. John O'Mahony reports
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Mulholland Drive is David Lynch's take on the Hollywood dream. As usual, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but, says Joe Queenan, that's not a bad thing

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