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[Marius Meller in the Tagesspiegel on INLAND EMPIRE]

a pale interior, an American petty bourgeois apartment. Husband and wife have rabbit heads. They do nothing special. A rabbit gets up, walks to the door, lets in a third rabbit - And you have a story. No, not so much a history, (for they could go in a thousand ways), rather an allegory. But before you get perhaps the idea that the American people this image is brought to the point (obenrum a religious nature, untenrum sex and violence), sound of laughter-preserved band, as usual in U.S. sitcoms. So the viewer's own laughter freezes in his throat.

What else happened in the 172 minutes of INLAND EMPIRE, which occur one like an eternity? The usual from the Lynch-Kosmos: people who are transformed into each other, Polish prostitutes who meet the evil, a film in the film with a great Death scene, an apparition of Satan and so on and so on. The rabbits Scene: a typical lynch trick, which he has copied from authors such as Kafka. Lynch reads Kafka, he says, if he wants to "have fun". A cynic? Every artist has the right to produce puzzles for the solution he is not competent. What's not to say that the mystery would be solved. The interpretation is for the viewer, his opportunity for knowledge - is part of the game, as in Kafka's late cinematic descendant of David Lynch. "Authors can tote one does not inquire as to the meaning of their art."

: He said in an interview David Lynch is at all covered, for questions specifically - or private. Everyone knows the story in the film business, why has he left Isabella Rossellini: because of a dead mouse in the family refrigerator, which he needed for an installation. Actually, a typical Lynch story, only told by Ms Rossellini. For the brilliant actress Laura Dern, in fact, has been to Lynch classics like "Wild at Heart" and "Blue Velvet" shone at the side of Rossellini, the film makers with a real Filmkuh and a large poster at a crossroads Los Angeles made. He wanted to their unique performance in INLAND EMPIRE point, because the cost of his Oscar-submission seemed too costly. A nice touch. Unfortunately - and that would have otherwise seen the Academy - a brilliant individual performance by a non-successful film is covered at times. And the new Lynch has not succeeded, even if the convinced Lynch fan is not easy on the lips.

in Lynch films, there is usually a leading metaphor. can he put an allegory for the occupation and "civilizing" the continent dar. Highway follow this man - - in "Lost Highway" (1997) was the American Highway themselves or lose it, as sometimes the protagonists of the film. Similarly, served the "Mulholland Drive" in the film of 2001 as leading metaphor. He is the most beautiful scenic road in Hollywood and an expensive residential area. But he also recalls the engineer William Mulholland (1855-1935), the irrigation system through its Los Angeles was first cultivated. "Mulholland Drive" was trying to deconstruct the magical center of America's dream factory - the film had discreetly, in the garb of a pseudo-horror film, on the way in U.S. culture repressed.

In Inland Empire Lynch now investigated the interaction of old Europe and new America. And therefore moved part of the plot, which works with double motives and identity exchange to Poland. But in this film frays their imagery of weird. The director acts over long distances himself as a cameraman with an (outdated) Hand-held digital camera. Thus, while some settings fascinating aesthetic - but come to the termination of the best division of labor between the camera and director, shape and rhythm of the rails.

addition act tricks that Lynch has invented or developed (subfrequenter soundtrack, white screens, games with the focus), as mere self-citations. "Lost Highway", "A Straight Story" (1999) and "Mulholland Drive was "crystal clear mounts, rational calculations, which are exciting irrational. INLAND EMPIRE, however, appears as the reuse of left out and assembled a makeshift movie snippets.

Laura Dern is acting in a - in a traditional film technology taken - key scene really Oscar-worthy. But often it has abandoned scenically. Jeremy Irons as a fictional film director and Justin Theroux as a fictional protagonist of that film to the film called Inland Empire will be rotated to play well, but somehow they all hang in the air.

We need to worry about the Lynch'schen creativity flow? No. Even with "A Straight Story" Lynch has shown that his film language can also, although there were there typical Lynch-scenes. And finally, he once "Dune - Dune" (1984) with David Bowie shot that was just as experiment as a total loss. "INLAND EMPIRE" acts, as would a close a chapter here. Hopefully Lynch broods been back from something that enchant us - as his strongest, his immortal movies.

Marius Meller © 2007 DAILY MIRROR. At the request of Mr. Lynch was the attribution "Inland Empire" in Inland Empire changed.