The Objective

«If the American director has only one masterpiece it is ‘Blue Velvet’; if we grant him two, the second is ‘Mulholland Drive'»

Si David Lynch solo tiene una obra maestra, es ‘Blue Velvet’; si tiene dos, la segunda es ‘Mulholland Drive’

«The film is a brilliant recreation of an inaugural moment in which a wild territory, barely inhabited by human beings, is hurled into the savage river of history»

«La película es una brillante recreación del momento inaugural en el que un territorio salvaje y apenas habitado por los seres humanos es arrojado a la fuerza al río salvaje de la historia»

«It’s impossible to imagine Sternberg getting anywhere in today’s Hollywood, which is more and more intent on sociological balancing acts»

«Es impensable que Josef von Sternberg pudiera hoy prosperar en un Hollywood cada vez más pendiente de los equilibrios sociológicos»

«Riefenstahl took full part in the preparations for the Nazi convention, designing her own sets and choreographing the performance; the film’s impact on the world was, after all, of greater importance than the impression the convention made on witnesses and those who attended»