Inland Empire

David Lynch
USA
2006

This is a story that happened yesterday. But I know it's tomorrow.

172", 35mm
Color, English - Polish

about the film

Hollywood actress Nikki Grace receives an offer to play the main role of the unhappy Sue Blue in a new film by director Kingsley Stewart. The actress is not deterred by her neighbour’s warnings about the role, or the discovery that the film is a remake of a Polish film called 47 that was never completed because the main characters succumbed to forbidden amorous feelings and were murdered with a rusty screwdriver. When Nikki allows herself to be seduced by acting partner Devon Berk, her hitherto transparent world is transformed. The lovers call each other by their characters’ names and the boundaries between different various realities definitively come tumbling down, and they realize they are beginning to mimic the fictional film they are shooting. After a while Nikki is unable to tell herself from the character she’s impersonating. Lynch’s first film in five years, two and a half years in the making, Inland Empire is an artistic masterpiece relate with Lynchian themes to grapple with, muse over, and ultimately be awed by.

about the director

Born in Missoula in 1946, David Lynch debuted with the surrealistic Eraserhead in 1977 and gained wider public attention with the post-modernist films Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990, Palme d’Or at Cannes). He entered the public consciousness thanks to his television serial Twin Peaks (1990–1991), which he initiated, directed in several episodes, and even changed into a feature-length film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). With the subsequent films Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006) Lynch confirmed his status as one of the most iconic directors working today.

awards

2006 Venice Film Festival: Future Film Festival Digital Award
2006 New York Film Festival
AFI Los Angeles
Thessaloniki Film Festival
2007 National Society of Film Critics Awards: Special Award for Best Experimental Film
Turin Film Festival
Rotterdam Film Festival
Mexico City Film Festival
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Melbourne Film Festival

screenings

February 14 Thursday, 9:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2

February 17 Sunday, 3:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2

February 27 Wednesday, 9:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

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