> I've just seen the movie and enjoyed it immensely. Anybody out there > who can talk me through it? Help,mike in bcnNP Paul Robeson 'Joe Hill'
I watched this film only last night with two friends. Somehow the film is best watched when you have people around so you can confirm things. Two thirds of the film has quite a linear flow, but the last one-third (especially when Laura Elena Harding a.k.a. Rita a.k.a. Camilla) drove all of us nuts. Just when we thought we had it figured out (i.e. the stories of Camilla and Diane Selwyn are linear but they were played by the actresses who earlier were known as Rita and Betty)... Coco (the ageless Ann Miller) appeared as Adam's (Justin Theroux) mother. That threw us on a loop. Then when we can no longer follow it the way people programmed by the cinema to put a coherent structure of the movie, we just watched the chronological and visual anachronisms and tried not to analyze it. I think David Lynch just wants to give a cinematic fuck you to the people who always want their plots and stories coherent. And that we were taken along the dizzying ride only to laugh at us in the end. On point of performance I like Naomi Watts (where did she come from?) and Laura Elena Harding (now seen in Sly's (or was it Van Damme?) DERAILED). Their lesbian love scene has all the colors of porno movies, and their chemistry is so great, it is heartbreaking to think that they will not end up in the end. And speaking of films... I just watched HEAVEN starring the luminous Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. I haven't seen a film recently that is as picturesque and attentive to the small details than Tom Twyker's HEAVEN (maybe Terrence Malick's THE THIN RED LINE). This film is so beautifully shot, well-acted (especially from Blanchett) and the ending was so poetic, it is almost heartbreaking. And those lovely Italian vistas! Also watched Zacharias Kunuk's ATARNAJUAT THE FAST RUNNER. Its the first for me to watch a 3-hour Eskimo film of snowscape, magic and rituals and not a single dull moment. Kunuk is an Inuit and is based in Canada. There was this one particular scene where a naked Atarnajuat was chased by knife-wielding Eskimos in the ice. Reminds me of Illeana Douglas' black comic ice skating in Gus Van Sant's TO DIE FOR.... and also Joni's snowscape cover in HEJIRA. Joseph (rainy in Manila because of the southwest monsoon)
