BBC: “A woman in trouble”. That’s as far as David Lynch is prepared to elaborate on the subject of his latest film, Inland Empire. Lynch has always resisted interpreting his own multi-layered, surreal dreamscapes but his reticence here makes more sense than ever, because his movie, on any conventional shot-by-shot basis, does not. How does one describe a three-hour digital video shuffle (shot on a consumer-level camera, not HD) of shape-shifting characters and parallel worlds populated by Hollywood actors, Polish prostitutes and a canned-laughter sitcom featuring humans dressed as rabbits?"
