Inland Empire

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Camden F Apr 28, 2025 I don't know what everyone's talking about, this is the most normal movie ever made See more Katy Apr 4, 2025 Lynch literally lost the plot. An endurance challenge, for sure. See more Brent Mar 30, 2025 Incredible film!!! So glad I waited to see this in theater! I mean & so many people think this film doesn’t make a lot of sense! Damn! Were they wrong David Lynch & Luara Dern are incredible! How she Didn’t even get an Oscar Nomination for this back in 2006…. I mean makes absolutely NO sense! See more Claude May 19, 2022 One of the most abstract things I've ever seen. Some remarks from a person who worked on the film: when interviewed at the Venice Film Festival, Laura Dern who is the star of the film admitted that she did not know what Inland Empire was about or the role she was playing, but hoped that seeing the film's premiere at the festival would help her "learn more". Dern also recounted a conversation she had with one of the movie's new producers, Jeremy Alter. He asked if director David Lynch was joking when he requested a one-legged woman, a monkey and a lumberjack by 3:15. By 4 p.m. they were shooting with the requested individuals. See more Vincent May 8, 2022 Very confusing but entertaining. A surreal experience See more Wayne K @WayneKelso Oct 17, 2026 The last film ever directed by celebrated auteur Davd Lynch, Inland Empire is his most divisive film and is so opaque that even it’s leads admitted to not knowing what it’s about. It’s admirable that Lynch threw caution to the wind and went full experimental for his swansong, but that doesn’t immunise it from criticism. It might have been intriguing if it was kept to around 90 or 100 minutes, but nearly 3 hours is far, far too long for a film like this. You really need to have your audience’s attention locked in with material like this, but Lynch allows his propensity for bizarre imagery and inexplicable events to run rampant, and when you have virtually nothing to latch on to it leaves you adrift in the story. There’s some big names in the cast but no one really feels like a character. Everyone is just there to make things weirder and more obscure. David Lynch peaked with Mulholland Drive; Inland Empire feels like a bizarre footnote, a curious oddity we don’t need to talk about. See more Read all reviews

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