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Directed by: David Lynch
Starring: Laura Dern (Nikki/Sue), Justin Theroux (Devon/Billy), Jeremy Irons (Director), Grace Zabriskie (Old lady visitor), Karolina Gruszka (Prostitute)
Country: United States
Language: English, Polish (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 02:59:40
Genres: Surreal, Prostitution-themed, Infidelity
Plot – Spoilers:
An actress Nikki lands the role she’s been vying for. While on set, she has bizarre experiences including literally entering the world of her character. Then there’s a prostitute who’s watching a lot of all this unfold on the telly.
Laura Dern plays Nikki the actress and Sue the character while mostly wearing a bewildered expression. A nice mirror of the viewer.
A second watch might unravel aspects of revenge for infidelity, religious references to limbo and perhaps more. But for many, this would seem like little vignettes of mastery from Lynch, strung together by an invisible thread. This is also a movie where you’re really grateful for the subtitles, even for the English parts, as the audio is often garbled at best.
It’s a movie about some people making a movie while some other people are making a movie about them while we are watching. It’s about how actors can get so far in to their roles that they can’t distinguish fantasy from reality, or at least that is how I see it. The film is so bizarre that any explanation could be what it’s about. Laura Dern was cast perfectly for the lead role. Dern is not unattractive but she is not a beauty queen either. Dern is almost 6 feet tall and she is a big girl. Although you kind of want to fuck her you also feel a little scared at the thought of doing it too. I think that Dern was the right choice because the character needed to be somewhat of an imposing figure, especially in the scenes where she talks to the fat guy with the glasses after climbing the long stairway. If they got a more attractive actress to play the lead, like say Naomi Watts, I believe the focus would have shifted more to how good looking the actress is instead of whatever it is director David Lynch wanted us to focus on. Naomi Watts has a credit in the movie as a voice actress. Anywho. It’s way too long. 4 stars. Genius film director William Friedkin, who directed “The Exorcist” (1973) and many other incredible films, once stated that movies should be no longer than 2 hours because the audience starts to tune… Read more »
Should have cast Naomi Watts in this . . . Laura Dern didn’t have what it took to carry the role.
An interesting but bloated cinematic experiment.
Strong 6/10
Interesting, if not overly long. All I need now is for someone to explain it to me!
Good movie but did not need to be 3 hours
Insanity… Loved it
Wtf?????
Never seen this film before
favourite movie
somebody below doesnt understand the meaning of the expression swan song – this film is perhaps lynch’s swan song but certainly not eraserhead
and if u want a genuine fucked up film director there is no one better than lynch – having said all of that – inland empire is impenetrable
The story is too simple.. there’s no mystery. Two vestigial thumbs down.
Pretentious, IMHO.