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Director: David Lynch

2006, 179min., R

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Diane Ladd, Julia Ormond, Mary Steenburgen, Naomi Watts, Harry Dean Stanton, William H Macy

 

A murky, miasmic, continent-hopping nightmare that’s a vehicle for longtime Lynch muse Laura Dern, playing Nikki Grace, a Hollywood starlet who’s sent into a spiraling identity crisis. Lynch acts as his own cinematographer on Inland Empire, his last theatrical feature to-date, shot over the course of three years on consumer-grade digital video. The result is an ominous death rattle for cinema as it was known through the 20th century, and a frightening funhouse maze without a center. “The color of night terrors… Despite its overwhelming gloom, Inland Empire mesmerizes, its pull resulting from the thrills of watching [Dern]… transform, stretch herself into terrified, terrifying characters.”—Melissa Anderson