How many aspiring starlets have come to Los Angeles, only to have their dreams smashed? David Lynch’s classic surrealist neo-noir invites you to scrutinise the collective dream that is LA.

This hallucinatory tale of a perky blond ingénue (Naomi Watts) caught up in a mystery involving an amnesiac brunette (Laura Elena Harring) begins with a bone-crunching car accident on the famous road above the city.