In it's most simplest form, the film is a story about Laura Dern as an actress losing her identity as her self, and you slowly become entangled in the character she begins to play in the film she is performing in.

Nevertheless, Dern’s fearless performance carries the film into many of its uncharted waters and tributaries and keeps it alive and vital until the end. Many discussions arose due to the way the film was shot, with an inexpensive, cheap-looking Sony DSR-PD150 digital camera, making the look of the film much less polished, more gritty and ugly.

Lynch shot scene-to-scene without a script, beyond a 14-page monologue for Laura Dern (recorded in a single 70-minute take and interspersed throughout the finished film), off and on for three years before enlisting French television to underwrite the completed work.

Apr 10, 2024 · In a series of shot-reverse-shots, harshly lit close-ups show the Phantom's face slowly losing life, and Nikki's terrified, yet determined reaction. Then, just as the melancholic music...

Jul 3, 2023 · Goldblum going from paralyzed fear to taking action feels abrupt and we need to see that shift. And if you didn’t get it on the day, hopefully you have a reaction shot of Laura Dern to put between those shots. My guess is they had neither.

Inland Empire is a 2006 experimental psychological thriller film [7] written, directed, and produced by David Lynch.Released with the tagline "A Woman in Trouble", the film follows the fragmented and nightmarish events surrounding a Hollywood actress who begins to take on the personality of a character she plays in a supposedly cursed film production.. It …

Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and five Golden Globe Awards.

Daddy and Them is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Billy Bob Thornton.It also stars John Prine, Laura Dern, Andy Griffith, Ben Affleck, Kelly Preston, Diane Ladd, Brenda Blethyn, Tuesday Knight, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jim Varney in his final film role.. Daddy and Them was filmed in 1998 in the wake of Thornton’s success with …

Sets turn into reality, anthropomorphic rabbits speak in tongues, and film stock is switched out for digital fish-eye shots. Only a truly great actress could pull off the protagonist of a movie this surreal, and Dern executed it without so much as a wince.

The girl crying at the TV kisses Laura, Laura disappears and becomes a part of the girl. Things are forgiven with she and her husband and they are all able to move on. Laura is back at home dressed as a queen, because she has freed herself and everyone else from this curse / …