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Mulholland Dr. [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Price: £6.15
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 0824255050333
Label : Tva Films
Manufacturer : Tva Films
Publisher : Tva Films
Release date : 2007-10-25
Title : Mulholland Dr. [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Original release date : 2002-01-04
Region code : 1
Running time : 147
Studio : Tva Films
Theatrical releaseDate : 2001

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in IMulholland Drive/I David Lynch indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar Ifilm noir/I atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams", Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we've become enthralled by the film's two main characters: the dazed and sullen femme fatale, Rita (Laura Elena Harring), and the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario (played exquisitely by Naomi Watts) who decides to help Rita regain her memory. Triggered by a rapturous Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's "Crying", Lynch's best film since IBlue Velvet/I splits glowingly into two equally compelling parts. --IFionn Meade/I

Customer reviews

review by: Berlino06 date: 2009-04-19 rating:

mulholland drove me crazy
a quite interesting technique will involve viewers in the purpose of understanding a really intricate thriller. Hardly you will find a key br /if you haven't got any clue. You might watch it twice or three times before br /you get there.

review by: date: 2009-01-09 rating:

Very refreshing
I absolutely love this film. br / br /The first thing to say is that the 2 lead actresses are gorgeous and there are a few scenes of them getting naked and kissing. There is one scene where Naomi Watts masturbates. Surely that is good enough reason to watch it. On a more serious note, the relationship is actually very heart-warming and tender. The way they strike up a friendship makes this film rather feel-good because the characters are both so nice and likable. br / br /If you asked me what it is about, I wouldn't be able to tell you. It would definitely be in the WTF category. But that is a good thing as far as I am concerned - it is one of only a few films that I have watched more than once all the way through - mainly to try to work out what happened. Things seem to be going rather straight forwardly up to a point, but near the end it starts to not make much sense. I like films that make you think. Some label films like this pretentious - by saying something is pretentious, in a way, that is quite pretentious! Pretentious or not, who cares? Is pretension even a bad thing? In my opinion no. If nothing else, it gives people the opportunity to label something 'pretentious' and feel superior. If nobody did anything new for fear of being labeled pretentious, it would be very boring and unexciting don't you think? This film cannot be described as pretentious anyway - pretension is the unjustified claim of merit; Lynch deserves his praise. br / br /The film is basically built around Hollywood and the eponymous "Mulholland Drive" in the Hollywood Hills. Through various metaphors, it is a critique of the fatuous, vacuous Hollywood lifestyle and the type of people the town creates. br / br /I have only seen 2 other Lynch films - Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. I would say it surpasses those two. I mainly say that due to the characterization in this film. The acting is superlative because of this. br / br /This film has moments of tenderness one minute, only for it to dissolve into screwball comedy the next, and chilling scenes after that. This is what makes the film so great. There are so many memorable scenes. The one that immediately springs to mind is Rebekah del Rio singing a Spanish version of Roy Orbison's "Crying" in an Opera hall. br / br /A modern masterpiece.

review by: date: 2007-06-08 rating:

Phenomenal
Seldom has a film gripped me and made me think so long after having viewed it .Visceral and simply stunning in every way. Naomi Watts is outstanding in this undoubted work of genius. All hail David Lynch!

review by: date: 2007-03-25 rating:

Driven to madness
Right from the first scene the viewer is seduced into another world. br /A would-be actress arrives in Hollywood. She is talented, charismatic, beautiful and seems set to take the film industry by storm. Or is she? We are presented with two stories, two slants to a life. br /How does David Lynch do it? He constructs a parallel universe where everything takes on a surreal, nightmarish quality. Anticipating the bizarre keeps us constantly on the edge of our seats. "Eraserhead" was too grotesque and "Blue Velvet" too sickening; but "Mulholland Drive" is different. Stil the odd, brooding atmosphere pervades, as does the underlying eroticism, the underlying terror. But this film satisfies. br /David Lynch - what a man to meet - or perhaps run screaming away from.

review by: ea_solinas date: 2007-03-20 rating:

Drive down
Los Angeles is not known for being a spooky town, with the palm trees, sunshine and Hollywood. But David Lynch makes it so in "Mulholland Drive," a brilliantly elliptical film where nothing is as it seems. With outstanding acting, eerie direction and a thoroughly strange plotline, this is a brain-bender of the best kind. br / br /The movie opens with heavy breathing, visions of a lovely young girl being awarded, many teen couples dancing, and a slow descent toward a pillow. Then we cut to a three-way car crash, followed by a pretty young woman (Laura Harring) wandering down the hill to an upscale apartment. But she soon encounters the owner's niece, pretty plucky Betty (Naomi Watts). When Betty learns that the mysterious young lady -- who is calling herself Rita -- has amnesia, she decides to help her find out what is going on. br / br /Elsewhere, a promising young film director's life is falling to pieces, because of a pair of malevolent brothers who want a particular young lady to star in his film. And when Betty begins to explore the strange car accident that Rita walked away from, they find that there is a bizarre conspiracy brewing in L.A. Or is there? The path gets more and more twisted, as the boundaries of reality and dreams blur.... and it all centers on a mysterious name: Diane Selwyn. br / br /This is a movie that doesn't make sense on the first viewing -- at first it just seems to be a straightforward suspense movie. But David Lynch completely turns that on its ear. Not everything makes sense in this film -- such as the monstrous man behind the restaurant -- but the pieces start to slowly click together as we find out who Diane Selwyn is. br / br /When you realize what the first two hours actually are, the film makes much more sense -- a muddied look at Diane Selwyn's life, but fragmented and twisted by her desires. Multiple alter-egos, wishful thinking, obsessive lesbian love, jealousy, rage, and random people and places come into her dream, but reflected as she wants to see them, and tainted by her own guilt. br / br /And even the sunny opening scenes, with the starry-eyed Betty arriving in sunny L.A. for an audition, take on a dark tinge when you discover who Diane was, and that she had the same experience. Naomi Watts plays both Betty and Diane, one sweet and innocent, the other bitter and unbalanced. And she's marvelous as both, whether playing a sweet young girl, or a hardened, obsessive starlet. Harding does almost as good a job as Rita, especially as the film starts, but the focus slowly and inexorable shifts to Watts. br / br /David Lynch ignores the shiny warmth of L.A., focusing on back-alley monsters, creepy dreams and hit men. He's known for being incredibly weird, and here he doesn't disappoint -- ordinary words and occurances are sinister, and the camerawork is insanely good. The camera slowly descends, wanders down hallways, and creeps to reveal something horrible. A few scenes -- the lesbian love scene, the monstrous restaurant creature that is implied to be in the middle of it -- seem a bit out of place, but then again, their presence could be interpreted in multiple ways. br / br /Surrealistic noir is the best way to describe "Mulholland Drive," an exceptionally strange mind-bender of a movie. Creepy, beautiful and very very unreal, and not something forgotten easily.

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