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Inland Empire

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Mystery drama starring Laura Dern. Hollywood actress Nikki Grace faces an escalating nightmare after winning a role in a new film that has been cursed with problems. Becoming increasingly consumed by her character, Susan Blue, Nikki finds screen life and real life merging, until she's uncertain of who she really is, and whether the disturbing events that unfold are fantasy or reality.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Sloan Freer

Five years after Mulholland Drive, indie icon David Lynch returns to the big screen with his most purposely inscrutable project yet. A surreal, three-hour drama shot on digital video, it's an atmospheric enigma that's more art than entertainment. Laura Dern is astonishing as Hollywood actress Nikki Grace, who faces an escalating nightmare after winning a coveted role in a cursed studio production. Becoming increasingly consumed by her character, Susan, she finds screen life and real life merging, until neither she - nor we - are certain who she really is, or whether the disturbing events that unfold are depicting Nikki or Susan's experiences. Fans of the writer/director's early work, such as Eraserhead, will be delighted to see him revisit his experimental roots, delivering a free-flowing tale that is visually bewitching, darkly comic and frequently terrifying. Anybody else is likely to be bored and baffled, lost like Nikki herself among the melding realities, talking rabbits and other dreamlike quirks.

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6.8/10

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Cast

rolenameNikki Grace / Susan BlueLaura DernKingsley StewartJeremy IronsDevon Berk / Billy Side Justin TherouxFreddie HowardHarry Dean StantonChelsiTerryn WestbrookDoris SideJulia OrmondPiotrek KrolPeter Jozef LucasVisitorGrace ZabriskieMarilyn LevensDiane LaddAnnouncerWilliam H MacyVisitor no 2Mary SteenburgenThe LadyNastassja KinskiJaneLaura HarringSuzie RabbitNaomi WattsJack RabbitScott Coffey

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rolenameDirectorDavid Lynch

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Theatrical distributor

Optimum Releasing

Released on

2007-03-09

Languages

English | Polish

Guidance

Violence, swearing and sex scenes.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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