25th anniversary of this mind-bending masterpiece which turns a young actress’s arrival in Los Angeles into a seductive journey through love, ambition, identity and illusion.

Betty arrives in Los Angeles with stars in her eyes, hoping to make it as an actress. In her aunt’s apartment she discovers a mysterious woman who has lost her memory following a car accident, and the two begin trying to work out who she is and what happened to her. But as they move deeper into the strange world of Hollywood, reality begins to shift and the line between dreams and waking life becomes increasingly difficult to find.

Twenty-five years after its release, Mulholland Drive remains one of David Lynch’s most hypnotic films — a seductive blend of film noir, psychological thriller and surrealist mystery. Naomi Watts and Laura Harring are mesmerising at its centre, while Lynch fills his vision of Hollywood with strange characters, eerie coincidences and unforgettable images. A film to puzzle over, dream about and see again, Mulholland Drive is perhaps the ultimate movie about the seductive power of cinema — and the danger of believing in the dream.

"David Lynch’s macabre mystery still exists in its own eerily timeless modernity: it just hasn’t aged a day, despite or because of its ambiguous status as period piece in an era of landlines and payphones . It is as brilliant and disquieting as anything Lynch has ever done" - The Guardian

"A bone fide masterpiece. An erotic, deeply unsettling, darkly comic journey through the subconscious city of night" - Empire Magazine

"The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it... This is a movie to surrender yourself to" - Roger Ebert

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Credits:

Actor

Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

Director

David Lynch

Running Time: 150 min

Year: 2001

Country: United States

Languages: English

Subtitles: No subtitles

Recomended Age: 15

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