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Classics: Mulholland Drive

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Country

Year

2001

Language

English spoken, Dutch subtitles

Actors

Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Mark Pellegrino, Brent Briscoe

Director

David Lynch

Duration

147 min

More than 20 years after its premiere, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive remains one of the most talked about and acclaimed films of all time. The film won the award for Best Direction at the Cannes Film Festival and consistently ranks high in lists of best films ever made.

Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made - or broken. Mulholland Drive (2001) begins as an apparent search for identity and truth, but it soon becomes clear that nothing is what it seems. The story revolves around Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), an ambitious actress full of hope and optimism, who has just arrived in Hollywood. Betty meets Rita (Laura Harring), a mysterious woman with amnesia after a car accident on the iconic Mulholland Drive. Together, they try to unravel the puzzle of Rita's past, but the deeper they dig, the stranger and darker the story becomes.

David Lynch

American director David Lynch died on Thursday, 16 January 2025, at the age of 78. David Lynch was one of the most unique and influential filmmakers of our time. Born on 20 January 1946 in Missoula, Montana, he built a career characterised by his unconventional style and fascination with the intangible. His work is a fusion of dream and reality, full of mystery, surrealism and often a touch of discomfort. To celebrate his oeuvre, we are screening his films Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway and Blue Velvet in the coming period (a wide-ranging retrospective will follow in June).