‎Inland Empire (2006) directed by David Lynch • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

Inland Empire

2006 Directed by David Lynch

A woman in trouble

An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Laura Dern Jeremy Irons Justin Theroux Karolina Gruszka Krzysztof Majchrzak Jan Hencz Grace Zabriskie Ian Abercrombie Amanda Foreman Peter J. Lucas Harry Dean Stanton Cameron Daddo Neil Dickson Diane Ladd William H. Macy Stanislaw Kazimierz Cybulski Henryka Cybulski Julia Ormond Jordan Ladd Kristen Kerr Mary Steenburgen Masuimi Max Robert Charles Hunter Terry Crews Nastassja Kinski Laura Harring Scott Coffey Naomi Watts

180 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Grooveman ★★★★★ 19

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Review by Adam Cook ★★★★½ 18

INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch for some reason is insistent on the capitalisation of the title) is an experience to say the least. Whether you view it as one of Lynch's best movies or an elaborate joke on the audience depends on how you view the director’s work as a whole. I am unapologetic in my love of Lynch and whilst I am not quite blind to his faults I am very much a fanboy. For this reason, INLAND EMPIRE is a work of mind-fucking brilliance.

It is one of the most indulgent, mental and disorienting films I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It is a film that demands and contradicts interpretation which means it works best when letting the…
Review by DirkH ★★ 16

Visual representation of me watching Inland Empire:

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Guess this wasn't for me.....
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 8

BRUTAL FUCKING MURDER.
Review by Katie ★★★★ 6

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Review by Ethan Vestby ★★★★★ 3

Lynch on frequent collaborator Dean Hurley in the DVD special features: "I really don't like Dean as a person but he's a fantastic sound man."

Recent reviews

Review by Christian Gale ★★★★

I guess I was prepared for this movie to make absolutely no, or at least absolutely no discernible sense, so for the first third I was surprised at how coherent it was. The next two thirds absolutely delivered on my expectations.

I started this way too late at night, so I split it into two which I kind of regret, and I was so anxious to continue it that I stayed up way too late the next night to finish and was very sleepy, which I also regret and makes me feel like I didn't get the full experience.

I was so ready for this movie to be inaccessible that I did not watch it with a very discerning eye.…
Review by Jasmim Bettencourt ★★★★½

I watched Inland Empire a few years ago, and I really liked it. But now I absolutely love it! Watching it on the big screen is a total difference. This film is a giant riddle, more complex than any other of his films (which are already very complex). It's 3 hours of Lynch completely gone nuts and doing everything he wants - and it's so so good! It completely immerses you in this crazy experience of different worlds and dimensions or whatever may be your interpretation of this work of a genius or a madman! David Lynch talks about how, when you go deeper you catch the bigger fish and that the ones who are in the deepest depths are…
Review by austin1006 ★★★½

There is a scene in this movie that made me laugh the hardest I have ever laughed at a movie in a long time.
Review by Michael Morales ★★

It was like watching someone tell a story you know is false, while they're eating Cheetos, in a shirt 3 sizes too small for them.

Someone should have reigned Lynch in a little. Interesting to see what was created without a full-size crew.
Review by Gabriel Gian ★★★★★

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Review by jesseknight ★★★★½

The funnier the Lynch, the scarier. And this one’s his funniest.
Review by Beemilia ★★

I was really fascinated in the behinning and until about halfway through I was really enjoying it, but for this style it was just waay too long. The second half was really hard to follow and at some point the interest was gone and I just wanted it to be over
Review by Spencer ★★★★½

A surreal fever dream with an incomprehensible amount of layers to it that it dares audiences to re-think everything they are watching as it is presented to them.

Utterly fantastic.
Review by burakkurupinar ★★★★

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