Inland Empire (film)

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Inland Empire is a 2006 film written, directed, shot, edited, and scored by David Lynch, who produced it alongside Mary Sweeney. The film stars Laura Dern as a Hollywood actress who begins to take on the personality of a character she plays in a supposedly cursed film production, causing fragmented and nightmarish events to unfold. It has defied categorization, with its genre being variously interpreted as drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, mystery, neo-noir, psychological thriller, and surrealist. A co-production between the United States, France, and Poland, Inland Empire takes its name from a Californian metropolitan area. It was completed over a three-year period, shooting primarily in Los Angeles and Łódź. The process marked several firsts for Lynch: the film was shot without a finished screenplay, instead being largely developed on a scene-by-scene basis, and was filmed entirely by Lynch on low-resolution digital video with a handheld Sony DSR-PD150 camcorder. The cast includes...

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