Inland Empire

David Lynch's longest and most experimental feature follows Laura Dern through a fragmenting consciousness that may be a film within a film, or a curse, or both. Shot for years on a prosumer camcorder, it looks unlike anything else — and asks more of its audience than any other Lynch work.

• Shot entirely on a Sony PD-150 standard-definition camcorder.
• Lynch wrote the film day by day, giving Laura Dern pages each morning.
• Laura Dern was the only actor told what was happening — none of the others knew.
• Features a sitcom about humanoid rabbits living in fear of an unseen presence.
• Includes a Polish folk tale subplot in untranslated Polish.

• "Look at me, and tell me if you have known me before."
• "A vast forest."
• "I am a whore. Where am I?"
• "A little girl went out to play."
• "Brutal fucking murder."