If we discount the staggering last series of Twin Peaks, this 2006 masterpiece stands as the late David Lynch’s final film, his first in digital and arguably his most ambitiously bizarre; a surreal cinematic odyssey which delves into an alternate digital realm of the unconscious permeating into reality.
As Nikki’s sanity disintegrates, so too does the line between reality and fiction: what is filmed and what is lived, and who is watching? Inland Empire is a sprawling, fragmented and nightmarish tour-de-force, sitting perfectly within Lynch’s wider cinematic oeuvre, tunnelling deep into the unconscious of American film.