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Monday, 20 January 2025

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)


A fly-on-the-wall documentary capturing a candid portrait of Lynch's lesser-known home life, interspersed with hundreds of previously unseen images of his art accompanied by commentary from Lynch himself, providing musings and recollections from his childhood and early career, pre-Eraserhead as well as post-Inland Empire. As with a lot of his work, at times it feels disparate and randomly cobbled together, like fragments from a dream, but it offers a fascinating insight into the artistic process of a true original icon, and you come away with a better sense of the man at the end of it. Captured over four years, this doc was put together by the same team who made Lynch (One).

3½ portraits ensconced in smoke out of 5

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