Beware what you dream for… the late, great David Lynch’s woozy, diabolical and exhilaratingly strange thriller is a nightmarish film noir that lays bare the twisted heart of the Hollywood dream machine.

Amnesia-suffering Rita (Laura Harring), who barely escapes murder in a suspicious car crash on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of aspiring actress Betty (Naomi Watts), a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame and fortune. When the two women encounter each other and join forces to try and piece together the elusive story of what really happened to Rita up there on Mulholland Drive, their delirious descent down the Lynchian rabbit hole ensues.

Puzzling and elusive, Mulholland Drive refuses easy interpretation and some have conjectured that the film takes place in a dream. In typical Lynch fashion, the director declined to offer any explanation of his narrative intentions in Mulholland Drive, instead simply referring to the film as “A love story in the city of dreams.”

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