| Spoiler Warning! | | | | and lofty dreams. She meets and falls in love with |
| Mulholland Drive (2001)is a surrealistic vision of | | | | pretty but needy Rita and wows studio |
| Hollywood directed b y David Lynch and starring | | | | executives with her fabulous acting skills. |
| Naomi Watts and Laura Helena Harring. Lynch won | | | | However, when Diane awakens from her dream, |
| the Prix de la mise en scene (Best Director | | | | we realise that her real life is far from rosy - she |
| Award) at the Cannes Festival and was later | | | | is reeling from the break-up of her relationship to |
| nominated for an Oscar for the movie. Many | | | | the successful actress Camilla and is at the |
| critics rank Mulholland Drive as one of Lynch’s | | | | beginnings of a mental breakdown. Diane hires a |
| greatest movies alongside Eraserhead (1977) and | | | | hit-man to do away with Camilla as we are shown |
| Blue Velvet (1986). The movie’s meaning is | | | | the course of their relationship through a series of |
| open to interpretation with Lynch refusing to | | | | non-linear flashbacks. Lynch wanted people to |
| offer any explanation of his intentions for the | | | | derive their own interpretations of what the |
| narrative. The basic plot - Diane Selwyn is a | | | | movie meant, but with the movie becoming a |
| struggling actress in Hollywood but excepting the | | | | financial disaster he was forced by the production |
| first shots of the movie the first half of the film | | | | company to release ten clues to the public as to |
| is shot from the perspective of Diane’s | | | | what the plot was about. He provided them but |
| dreaming. She dreams that she is Betty, a | | | | there is some debate as to whether the clues are |
| charming, idealistic but heady young woman who | | | | completely honest or slightly misleading. |
| is just arriving to Hollywood with a pounding heart | | | | |