In an elegant residential neighborhood nestled in a valley on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a woman is in trouble. She's in love, and a thick veil of mystery surrounds her. Her story will intertwine with that of an actor recently cast as a Southern gentleman in a major production...
Inland Empire, David Lynch's most mysterious and enigmatic film, concludes his filmography (while also anticipating the sensational return of 'Twin Peaks') under the banner of a renewed independent spirit and total production autonomy, made possible by digital technology. Lynch wrote the story and screenplay, and handled photography, editing, and music (here too, we find traces of his future LPs), ideally and perfectly closing a circle begun decades earlier with 'Eraserhead'. And with ‘Inland Empire’ – on its 20th anniversary and one year after Lynch’s death – the project “The Big Dreamer” also concludes, created together with Lucky Red, which brought the Missoula director’s filmography back to the cinema.
"Fascinated by the wonders of the digital camera, Lynch shoots a completely 'open' film on DV: a screenplay under construction sequence by sequence, sets scattered across America and Europe, fetish actors (Laura Dern) willing to do anything for him, and a dark reflection on the seventh art. If possible, a film even more elusive and illogical than the others, even if – on closer inspection – it is a work explicitly about cinema and creation, perhaps the most direct the filmmaker has ever made: a Day for Night of delirium?". (Roy Menarini).
In collaboration with Mabuse Cineclub
