David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

While torrents of words have been dedicated to the profoundly provocative if enigmatic work of David Lynch, the auteur in question has rarely been much help. This was the challenge for Labarthe and debut director Guy Girard when they set out to film Lynch as he was completing the scoring of Wild at Heart. Through the intermediary of critic John Powers—personally picked by Lynch—Lynch creates an elaborate façade around himself and his films: sudden changes, missed clues, a deadpan that seems to be concealing something. Inexorably, the line between the director and his work starts to disappear. –NYFF