Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 49 wins & 61 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Lynch challenges our expectations of narrative and credibility by luxuriating in something else -- the unexplained, the making of no-sense that (he says) underlies life.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
24 Oct 2001
fresh:
A movie to savour.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
26 Oct 2001
fresh:
Like Twin Peaks, it keeps spooling out more narrative twists until the ingenious maze turns into an oppressive tangle.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
28 Oct 2001
fresh:
One of the very few movies in which the pieces not only add up to much more than the whole, but also supersede it with a series of (for the most part) fascinating fragments.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
8 Nov 2001
rotten:
Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while.