Films of the decade: “Inland Empire”

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:45:00 +0000

When I saw "Inland Empire" one gray afternoon at the IFC Center in Manhattan there was just me and about three other people in the audience, as if the theater was our private living room. It seemed very long, but at the same time I never wanted it to end. One room gives way to another, one world shifting to another, moving without warning from Poland in black-and-white to L.A. mansions to lurid back streets to desperate suburbs. Shot on some kind of low-fi video that is sometimes ugly but sometimes gorgeous, "Inland Empire" is full of beauty and dread and David Lynch's sinister jokiness -- the rabbit people! -- the work of a great director who will go only where he wants to go.

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Films of the decade: “Inland Empire”