Mondo Moxie: Inland Empire (2006)
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. (R, 180 min.)
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“Strange, what love does.” The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble . . . David Lynch’s first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it takes viewers on a hallucinatory odyssey into the deepest realms of the unconscious mind. [Criterion]
Starring: Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie, Jeremy Irons, Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas, Krzysztof Majchrzak
Director: David Lynch
Genre: Psychological Thiller, Mystery
"An amazing and unshakeable experience."
— Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
"A can't-miss experience and likely one of the year's very best films."
— Tom Long, Detroit News
"My advice, in the face of such hallucinatory brilliance, is that you hang on."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Undeniably, Inland Empire has moments that seem like transmissions from cinema's future."
— Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
"The Atlas Shrugged of narrative avant-garde films, compulsively watchable and insanely self-devouring."
— Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
"A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma, featuring a superb, multi-layered performance by Laura Dern."
— Damon Wise, Empire Magazine
"A free-fall plunge through David Lynch's imagination, a curious and often astonishing place. The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure."
— Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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