Inland Empire

Plot

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

About Inland Empire

Inland Empire is a 2006 film written, directed, shot, edited, and scored by David Lynch, who produced it alongside Mary Sweeney. The film stars Laura Dern as a Hollywood actress who begins to take on the personality of a character she plays in a supposedly cursed film production, causing fragmented and nightmarish events to unfold. It has defied categorization, with its genre being variously interpreted as drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, mystery, neo-noir, psychological thriller, and surrealist. A co-production between the United States, France, and Poland, Inland Empire takes its name from a Californian metropolitan area. It was completed over a three-year period, shooting primarily in Los Angeles and Łódź. The process marked several firsts for Lynch: the film was shot without a finished screenplay, instead being largely developed on a scene-by-scene basis, and was filmed entirely by Lynch on low-resolution digital video with a handheld Sony DSR-PD150 camcorder. The cast includes frequent Lynch collaborators such as Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, and Grace Zabriskie, as well as Jeremy Irons, Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas, Krzysztof Majchrzak, and Julia Ormond. Brief appearances are made by additional actors including Terry Crews, Laura Harring, Nastassja Kinski, Diane Ladd, William H. Macy, and Mary Steenburgen. The voices of Harring, Naomi Watts, and…

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