Inland Empire (film)
Inland Empire is a 2006 film written and directed by David Lynch and was his first feature film since 2001s Mulholland Drive. The feature took twoandahalf years to complete, and was Lynchs first film to have been shot entirely in standard definition digital video. The film is a coproduction of France, Poland and the United States. It premiered in Italy at the Venice Film Festival onSeptember 2006.
The film opens to the sound of a gramophone playing Axxon N, the longestrunning radio play in history. Meanwhile, a young prostitute, identified in the credits as the Lost Girl, cries while watching television in a hotel room, following an unpleasant encounter with her client. The Lost Girls television displays a family of surrealistic anthropomorphic rabbits who speak in cryptic statements and questions. Occasionally, there are laugh track responses within these Rabbit scenes. These three elements become recurring motifs throughout Inland Empire.The main plot follows an actress named Nikki Grace Dern, who has applied for a comeback role as Sue in a film entitled On High in Blue Tomorrows. The day before the audition, Nikki is visited by an enigmatic old woman Zabriskie who says she is her neighbor she predicts that Nikki will get the role, and recounts two folk tales. One tells of a boy who, sparking a reflection after passing through a doorway, caused evil to be born. The other tells of a girl who, wandering through an alleyway behind a marketplace, discovers a palace. The old woman presses Nikki for details on her new film, asking whether the story is about marriage and involves murder. Nikki denies both, but her neighbor disagrees. Disregarding Nikkis offended response, the old woman comments on the confusion of time, claiming that were this tomorrow, Nikki would be sitting on a couch adjacent to them. The film then pans to where the neighbor is pointing, and we see Nikki and two girlfriends sitting on the couch. Her butler Ian Abercrombie walks into the living room with a phone call from her agent, announcing that she has won the role. Ecstatic, Nikki and her friends celebrate while her husband Piotrek Peter J. Lucas ominously surveys them from atop a nearby staircase. ........
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