Lynch’s "Twin Peaks" television serial "peaked" my interest in this most unexpected offering by this Englishman - I had seen his ERASERHEAD as a teenager in the 1970s at a Baltimore art theatre - the plot twists hither thither as the heroine encounters both the profound and the macabre in her pursuit of a film actress’ role in the Hollywood of the New Millenium.
One meets weird agents, a jilted director (his wife is leaving him for a plumber working at his house), etc all through the eyes of the heroine.
Let me ditract and mention something about the actual Mulholland Drive in LA - dangerous curves and noted for the racing duels for crazy LA-ites - its all more or less like the movie - you simply dont know what to expect and there are MANY twists and tyrns in the plot as the heroine drifts into a supernatural, surreal world -
Ive lived in LA , driven a "fast" car on Mulholland (and ticketed by CHiPs) and even tried to produce a short film there - if one gets VERY involved in the (West) Hollywood "lifestyle" near Mullholland and Melrose and Vine - one can truly appreciate the strange elan of this film.
Ive kept my sanity and now stay clear of LA....