19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Americana 2001

MULHOLLAND DRIVE

MULHOLLAND DRIVE

Country: USA
Year: 2001
Duration: 146'


A woman named Rita has a car accident on Mulholland Drive in Hollywood, loses her memory and hides in a small wood. In the meantime, two friends, Herb and Dan, are chatting in a restaurant. Dan confesses that he has had a terrible nightmare and shortly afterwards dies, for no apparent reason. Betty, an aspiring actress, arrives in Los Angeles and stays with her Aunt Ruth, who lives in an apartment building overlooking the small wood where Rita is hiding. Ruth is gone on a trip and is letting Betty use her apartment. The girl meets Rita, who tells her of her amnesia. Betty decides to help her. In another part of L.A., the director Adam Kesher is threatened by two Mafiosi who force him to hire a protégée of theirs.

Biography

film director

David Lynch

David Lynch was born in 1946 in Missoula, Montana, and made his first feature film, Eraserhead, in 1977. Three years later he made The Elephant Man, which won him eight Oscar nominations. In 1984 he directed Dune, and in 1986 Blue Velvet. In 1990 he won the Golden Palm in Cannes with Wild at Heart. He went on to direct Twin Peaks (1990-1991), an extraordinarily successful television series, followed by Fire Walk with Me (1992). In 1996 he directed Lost Highway, and in 1999 The Straight Story. Mulholland Drive initially was supposed to be a television series.

FILMOGRAFIA

Six Figures (cm, 1967), The Alphabet (cm, 1968), The Grandmother (mm, 1969), Eraserhead (Eraserhead - La mente che cancella, 1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (id., 1984), The Cowboy and the Frenchman (tv, 1989), Wild at Heart (Cuore selvaggio, 1990), Twin Peaks (serie tv, 1990-1), Fire Walk with Me (Fuoco cammina con me, 1992), Hotel Room (serie tv, 1992), On the Air (serie tv, 1992), Lost Highway (Strade perdute, 1996), The Straight Story (Una storia vera, 1999), Mulholland Drive (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: David Lynch.
Director of photography: Peter Deming.
Art director: Jack Fisk.
Editor: Mary Sweeney.
Music: Angelo Badalamenti.
Cast and characters: Justin Theroux (Adam Kesher), Naomi Watts (Betty Elms), Laura Elena Harring (Rita), Ann Miller (Coco Lenoix), Robert Forster (detective McKnight), Dan Hedaya (Vincenzo Castiglione).
Production company: Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire, Tony Krantz per Films Alain Sarde/Studiocanal /Asymmetrical.
Foreign sales agent: Studiocanal, Espace Lumière, 5-13 Boulevard de la République, 92100 Boulogne, France, tel. +33-1-71759999, fax +33-1-71758973.
Italian distribution: 01 Distribuzione, P.zza Adriana, 12, 00193 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-684701, fax +39-06-6872141, e-mail info.raicinema@rai.it.
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