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Lynch kept control of the footage he had already shot, and with the help of Canal Plus, a French distributor, managed to finish the film. It premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, to much praise. He was co-awarded the Best Director prize at the festival (sharing it with Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There).
It received critical praise in the United States, being named Best Picture of the Year by the New York Film Critics Association , and even more notably was given an enthusiastic thumbs-up by critic Roger Ebert, who had previously expressed mixed feelings about Lynch's work. Lynch was also nominated for a Best Directing Oscar for the second time, losing to A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard. Nevertheless, the film had little commercial success, grossing just over $7 million at the American box office.
While driving down Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh late at night, a dark-haired woman (played by Laura Elena Harring ) has a car accident and afterwards, suffers amnesiaAmnesia is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain (generally sedative) drugs. Functional causes are psychological. She wanders down the hill into L.A., and sleeps in a vacant apartment. The next day, a young woman (played by Naomi WattsNaomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an English-born Australian actress and producer. Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Kent, England, where she lived until the age of eight. Her parents, Peter and Myfanwy Watts had separated when she was four years), who has just come to L.A. to try to become a movie star, moves in and finds her. Together, the two of them try to piece together exactly who the dark-haired woman is and what happened that night.
Other strange things, at first seemingly unrelated, are happening as well. A man tells a friend about a recurring nightmareThis page is about a type of dream. See Nightmare (disambiguation) for other meanings of the term A nightmare is a dream of particular intensity and with content that the sleeper finds disturbing. They are usually associated with rapid-eye movement ( REM), only to have it come true... a film director finds his latest project (and later, his life) being controlled by shadowy mobsters... and an incompetent hit man steals a "black book".
All these pieces eventually come together, though many viewers have required several viewings to grasp Lynch's unorthodox dreamDreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. Dreaming is associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of sleep that occurs during the later portionlike approach.
Lynch has maintained his refusal to comment on the film's "meaning" or symbolismFor an account of the late 19th-century movement in poetry and the arts, known as Symbolism see symbolism (arts). Symbolism is the systematic use of symbols to represent or allude to something. In the most literal sense, all language is symbolic. In a nar, leading to much discussion and multiple interpretations.
Whatever its interpretation, the essential structure of the plot is as follows. The first hour and fifty-six minutes of the film tell several interweaving stories. The main thread is the story of Betty Elms (played by Naomi WattsNaomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an English-born Australian actress and producer. Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Kent, England, where she lived until the age of eight. Her parents, Peter and Myfanwy Watts had separated when she was four years), a young (and cloyingly perky) aspiring actress who has just moved to Hollywood from Deep River, OntarioOntario ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains Capital Toronto Largest City Toronto Area Total % fresh water 4th largest(2nd lgst prov. 1 076 395 kmē 14. 7% Population Total (2001) Density Rank. While staying in the apartment of her Aunt Ruth, Betty meets the dark-haired woman from the accident and, in Nancy Drew-like fashion, attempts to help her discover her identity and regain her memory. The woman from the accident calls herself 'Rita' (from a movie poster advertising Rita Hayworth in Gilda ) and eventually remembers a connection with the name 'Diane Selwyn'.
A second thread follows director Adam Kesher (played by Justin Theroux ), who is being pressured to hire a specific actress named Camilla Rhodes to star in the film he is currently making. Other subplots involve a bumbling hit man and a man who dreams that he sees a 'monster' behind a Winkie's Diner.
The plot developments become more and more oneiric (ie, relating to dreams) and bizarre, until finally the film leaves these storylines behind altogether and shifts gears entirely. The entire film so far has been a dream or fantasy of the real Diane Selwyn (now played by Naomi Watts), who in her dream has cast herself as 'Betty Elms' and reconstructed her life, history, and persona into something like a Hollywood movie. A sequence of flashbacks reveals that Diane moved from Ontario to Hollywood upon receiving an inheritance from her deceased Aunt Ruth and became involved with up-and-coming actress Camilla Rhodes (the dream 'Rita', now played by Laura Elena Harring); after Camilla broke off their romance, Diane hired a hit man to kill her. At the end of the film, the tormented Diane kills herself as well.
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