Mulholland Drive 2001

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 147 min

genre: mystery

theme: surreal

director: David Lynch

Score: 8 / 10

Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, who meets and befriends an amnesiac woman (Harring) recovering from a car accident. The story follows several other vignettes and characters, including a Hollywood film director (Theroux).

Plot

A woman is about to be shot by her limousine chauffeur on Mulholland Drive, but is saved when a car crashes into them. The woman is the sole survivor but is dazed, and hides in an apartment when the occupant leaves with suitcases. Aspiring actress Betty Elms from Deep River, Ontario arrives at the apartment, loaned by her aunt, and finds the woman. The woman confides she has amnesia and is in danger, and dons the name "Rita" from a Gilda poster. The two discover a large quantity of cash and a blue key in Rita's purse.

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More details

author	David Lynch
award	César Award for Best Foreign Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Los Angeles Mulholland Drive
director	David Lynch
editor	Mary Sweeney
events	agency amnesia chance discontinuity dream and reality identity liberty necessity oneirism personal identity self-concept
genre	mystery
keywords	apartment complex break car crash casting agent chant cry getting married gilda hide kick out lose married new apartment nothing open past relationship rebekah del rio record return home sing sole survivor struggle to remember traumatize vanish
musicBy	Angelo Badalamenti
nomination	Academy Award for Best Director
producer	Alain Sarde Mary Sweeney Michael Polaire Neal Edelstein Tony Krantz
productionCompany	Asymmetrical Productions Babbo Inc. Le Studio Canal+ Les Films Alain Sarde The Picture Factory
publisher	Universal Pictures
theme	independent narrative neo-noir surreal