Mark Johnson
18Feb12
If you make a student film this good, let us know. In my opinion, Inland Empire is Lynch's best work.
One of the greatest films of all time and an experience like no other. Nightmarish, frightening, hilarious, irrational, ridiculous, delirious, exhausting and fucked up beyond recognition - proof that this kind of pure, persona cinema isn't quite dead yet. How someone could not appreciate the joys and terrors of this masterpiece is beyond me.
The other and the other and the other get familiar at some point, almost comforting if you are an experienced audience of David Lynch. The folk tale behind the film driving all the narrative is binding as the Polish characters and conversations in the film. And once again, how awake I tried to be during watching he managed to get me trapped in his flashing lights and hypnotizing frame rates.
A sprawling masterpiece! As annoyingly pretentious as it sound, this really is the David Lynch litmas test
It's really difficult to watch, but there are unforgettable scenes like the polish old lady, or the whores fighting in the street under heavy drugs.
There should have been a warning: 'Watching this will take you to a very dark place and leave you there'
Great soundtrack. I was interested for about the first 45 minutes, then a wave of lethargy/apathy hit me as I think it did the entire audience. None of them seemed to take it very seriously as it veered off into incoherence.
I will say that I tried, but I could not get past the first forty-five minutes. It felt like a bad student film and if Lynch's name was not attached to it, no one would give a damn. It's a shame to see a great filmmaker squander his talent like this, and I really hope Lynch picks himself up from this. He always has.
If you make a student film this good, let us know. In my opinion, Inland Empire is Lynch's best work.
I just wrote a comment very similar to yours without even seeing it, I totally agree.
I can't rate it right now. Some people think that it is easy to make a film like this and that Lynch just wants to play with us taking a lot of images with no sense. but I truly believe he is one of the most sincere directors in the cinema, He has a truly passion for making art with a diferent kind and in a unconventional way, a thing I love.
Un film qui donne mal à la tête tellement c'est tordu ! À voir parce que Lynch fait des films que personne ne peut se permettre de faire, sauf lui...
Greatest mindfuck ever. Enjoyable? Not Really. É um Mulholland Drive mais extremo. Vai ser difícil superar este, caso o realizador siga a mesma linha de cenas surreais, espaço de tempo desfragmentado, etc. O filme é muito bom, but it's not my cup of tea. P.S.: A actriz principal é fantástica.
It's ugly, aggressive and violent. Menace caught on film in its purest form. This is one of the most truthful pieces of art that I have ever seen.
It's extremely hard to summarize this movie. A never-waking nightmare of a mystery inside worlds within worlds, holes inside holes. Uneasy and very hard to watch. As surreal as it can get! Impressively intense with multi-nuanced performances. A roller coaster ride to Lynchland.
Absolutely ugly and unsettling and really . . . dense. I don't believe this is the best Lynch has to offer.
Lynch plays with my mind the way he wants. He has the power to make you believe that is just a fucking nightmare, but it's not, you are seeing the strangest side of a disturbing mind and a disturbing reality at the same time. You become so fucked up as Laura, that's why I can not stop watching Lynch's cinema, because when I see I become in something that I can not be in real life.
Reminded me of Satoshi Kon's wonderful "Perfect Blue" and Lynch's own "Mulholland Dr.", which is one of my favorite films. I liked it, the first half an hour was gripping, but I'd need to see it again to be completely sure on how I felt about it. Definitely an intriguing, disturbing and memorable experience. Way too incomprehensible for the casual viewer, though.
I watched this movie at a festival and the weirdest thing happened to me: I was so tired and sleepy & got confused between the movie & my dreams... I got such a strange connection, as if I were watching the movie from my subconscious... I won't forget it!