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This is a fast movie! Shot in 3 weeks with a budget not fit for an ad, Irma Vep has its roots in a silent masterpiece and explodes right in the 21st century. The plot is only a pretext to explore what cinema has become today. It is an excellent ride in the History of this art-form. I loved it. It is subtle and fast.

It was predictable. The book is such a masterpiece, one really couldn't imagine how ANY director would deal with it. The result is obviously very mediocre and rather dull. Cronenberg was once supposed to attack this monument and even he gave up. The sadistic material is impossible to show in a film and it is at the same time absolutely necessary. Some scenes are not that bad, but it's only because they make you think of the book. Nobody should take the blame for that wreckage, the mission was truly impossible.

Lost Highway is undoubtedly one of the most striking movie of all time. It sometimes resembles a contemporary art installation or video, but it's also both an Hitchcockian thriller dealing with identity and an experimental, almost underground film. The photography is superb and the actors, as always with Lynch, reach unknown territories where no one would have expected them to go. The musical score is ironic and modern. Lost Highway is something rare and precious: an attempt by a famous director to explore modern urban mythology without any of the tricks of the trade most film-makers use. It is free as art itself, violent and puzzling. It shows images never seen or fantasized before. It is a masterpiece!