Thriller · Drama · Mystery
American
2001 · Directed by David Lynch · 147 min
A young actress arrives in Los Angeles with big hopes and meets a woman who has lost her memory after a night-time accident. As they try to find out who she is, a film director's troubles unfold elsewhere in the city. Dreamlike, funny and unsettling by turns.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 21st-century art cinema, it carried the Hollywood-noir tradition into surreal territory and made ambiguity a mark of serious popular filmmaking.
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Watch it as a story told by mood and feeling first, and let the logic arrive later or not at all.
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