Mullholland Drive

[Dave Monroe]

>From Peter Bradshaw, "Driven to Distraction," The
Guardian, Friday, January 4, 2002 ...

"The narrative of Mulholland Dr, uproariously weird as
it is, actually does make a baggy sort of sense, but
its plot impetus and structural integrity all have a
somnambulist feel: not surreal precisely but with a
Dali soft-watch sense of time stemming from the
heroine's amnesia but stubbornly persisting even with
the return of her memory....  In the hands of another
director, these events would have hard, aggressive
slicing edges like the components of automatic
weaponry snapped ironically into place.

"But Lynch contrives to fill them with helium like
funny-shaped balloons and float them past the
screen....

"... Lynch and his characters fall through the looking
glass into a new dimension....

"Confused? The reality depends on which side of the
looking glass we are standing...."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,627443,00.html

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,627238,00.html

Not an esp. enlightening review, but, in general,
there are very good reasons why The Guardian might
just be Our Man Pynch's news medium of choice ...

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