Review 743: Mulholland Drive

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is a fascinating enigma, an alluring,  neo-noir mystery 

Blonde aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets the enigmatic, amnesiac brunette known only as "Rita" (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve "Rita's" identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

The film has a hypnotic, dreamlike quality    Lynch is clearly very inspired by Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, another film about broken dreams in Hollywood

Naomi Watts is a   she beautifully captures the wide eyed, idealistic persona of