Inland Empire (2006)
Directed by David Lynch
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
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There are deliberate echoes to Sunset Boulevard, too, and through Gloria Swanson to 1929's Queen Kelly.
If Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are relatable as extrapolations of themes proposed by Hitchcock's Marnie and Vertigo, think of Inland Empire as Lynch's The Birds, wherein the indomitable femme is reduced to domesticity at the end not by any supernatural source, but by her agreement to be assimilated into the patriarchal norm.
When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's " Sunset Boulevard ," Lynch's " Persona ," or Lynch's " 8 1/2 ," they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining ," Jean-Luc Godard's " Pierrot le Fou ," Bunuel and Dali's " Un Chien Andalou ," Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite), and others.
There are sequences in Polish (including a brief appearance by Leon Niemczyk, the lead in Polanski's KNIFE IN THE WATER), a recurring image of three rabbits who star in a sitcom (shorts that first appeared on Lynch's fee-based website ), and cameos by actors like Mary Steenburgen, William H. Macy, Laura Harring, Nastassja Kinski, Diane Ladd (sending up Hollywood gossip queens), Grace Zabriskie (as an oddball Polish neighbor in a just this side of an over-the-top performance), and Harry Dean Stanton (as Irons' right-hand man).
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When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's " Sunset Boulevard ," Lynch's " Persona ," or Lynch's " 8 1/2 ," they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining ," Jean-Luc Godard's " Pierrot le Fou ," Bunuel and Dali's " Un Chien Andalou ," Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite), and others.
Similarly unreadable, the film has been noted as a large influence on David Lynch's bulky Inland Empire and, like Resnais' film, I have found myself less-and-less frustrated with Lynch's monster on subsequent viewings.
When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's " Sunset Boulevard ," Lynch's " Persona ," or Lynch's " 8 1/2 ," they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining ," Jean-Luc Godard's " Pierrot le Fou ," Bunuel and Dali's " Un Chien Andalou ," Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite), and others.
There are deliberate echoes to Sunset Boulevard, too, and through Gloria Swanson to 1929's Queen Kelly.
Papa Rabbit opens the first of many portals, the next room dissolves into a Hollywood mansion and in wanders Grace Zabriskie keyed up to Maria Ouspenskaya in The Wolf Man.
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When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's " Sunset Boulevard ," Lynch's " Persona ," or Lynch's " 8 1/2 ," they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining ," Jean-Luc Godard's " Pierrot le Fou ," Bunuel and Dali's " Un Chien Andalou ," Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite), and others.
When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's " Sunset Boulevard ," Lynch's " Persona ," or Lynch's " 8 1/2 ," they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining ," Jean-Luc Godard's " Pierrot le Fou ," Bunuel and Dali's " Un Chien Andalou ," Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite), and others.