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"Mulholland Drive"
THE BEST MOVIE OF 2001
(Reviewed September 19, 2001; revised December 9, 2001)
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Noirish, unsettling, eerie and unforgettable. A stunningly beautiful amnesiac woman tries to figure out who she is, while various subplots (some funny, some creepy, and more than one that is just plain bizarre) pop up along the way, a la "Twin Peaks." (Look, it's a David Lynch movie; everything in it is not SUPPOSED to be linear and rational.)
This movie started life as the pilot for a TV series that did not get picked up, but Lynch does a masterful job of wrapping up what was supposed to be an ongoing series that should have taken months (or years) to unfold. The result is entertainingly, uniquely strange and completely absorbing, with a shock ending that seems to fly in out of left field but which ends up making perfect sense after a little thought. Naomi Watts deserves to win the Best Actress Oscar for her amazing performance as a wide-eyed Hollywood innocent who gets a very rude awakening in the city of dreams.
Also, "Mulholland Drive" has one of the hottest soft-core sex scenes I've ever seen in my life (no kidding). Who would have thought Lynch had THAT in him?
Back Row Grade: A+
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