Mulholland Drive

David Lynch's 2001
Of course, completely weird
The direction is almost film-school-esque; moving camera, following characters
not much immediate beauty, just that slowly moving camera
use of flashing lights, often blue, to create strange movements though that are beautiful
clear pastiche elements, of genres, emotion, even porn, noir, gnagster...
clear at the start of the Naomi Watts strand, almost Bresson-like puppeteering
way of pushing the audience out of the 'reality'
comparison to Luis Bunuel; two dimensional world, world as a stage
and of course the 'Surrealist' elements
Lynch is actually very grounded, it is montage that creates the strangeness
major achievement of Lynch is to make a non-narrative film incredibly entertaining
narrative at start, then the drop off
film is a discussion of the stage; reversals of the end offer so many readings, make audience think
of course an inexplicable film, but Lynch's recycling of genre, and injections of incongruity, in plot and style, marks him as the most complex and interesting of recent Hollywood cinema