Mulholland Drive

A chilling drama that kept me up at night and forced me to think. I really gave the film my utmost attention, and I was desperate not to miss the slightest detail that might then cost me a shred of explanation. Up to about the 110th minute, everything is understandable, but what takes place in the final scenes is something unbelievable, completely incomprehensible to me (though I felt at times that there were some clues to an explanation, ultimately I was "disappointed" in this respect) and fascinating. For another half hour after the closing credits, I remained sitting on the couch, staring dully at the DVD menu screen. For a moment I considered playing it again. :) Bottom line – David Lynch is the man, so very much the man, the direction is absolutely amazing, as is the music, sound, cinematography, and actors. A totally unique and almost "otherworldly" cinematic experience. (03/05/2009)

Mulholland Drive is not a film for viewers who need a clearly defined script, want answers, and a clear resolution. It is, on the other hand, suitable for those who like to play, enjoy a mysterious atmosphere, and possess a good dose of imagination and creativity. Mulholland Drive is primarily a typically Lynchian game with genres and pop-cultural references, featuring excellent music, great acting performances, precise editing, and interesting cinematography. It’s a film that made Naomi Watts a major star. Overall impression: 95%. Along with the much darker Lost Highway, it's probably Lynch's best work. (24/09/2007)

A film about the purity and vulnerability of the human soul, about life’s dreams and the desire to fulfil the expectations that are placed on us. A film about the fear of touching the ideal, about disappointment, desperation and hatred, about the ugliness of the world outside (specifically Hollywood in this case). This film doesn’t have one clear point, there is no “right key” to it. Mulholland Drive is a mosaic of multiple ideas that could have been put across in a much simpler, but not as interesting and compelling way. The number of connections in the film that tell you something depends on your personal experiences and your awareness of their place in your life. A simultaneously cruel and beautiful soap opera. (04/10/2005)

A psycho(il)logical and strange picture that is hard to grasp... So, in fact, the type of classic that we are used to getting from Lynch. If it had ended twenty minutes earlier, this would have been maybe the most graspable Lynch movie ever, but at that moment is breaks into the most bizarre movie ever. Lynch on his best film-making (not series-making!) form. (12/05/2012)

As a series, it might not be bad. Yet as a standalone film, it rides the wave of films with unreliable narrators, and that perpetual dreamlike atmosphere and the combination of Lynch and his favorite films just makes for a new collage. However, the latent Sapphic themes and the crush on the Paramount gate are elements I’m always interested in. (24/10/2016)