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As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. 

David Lynch’s sprawling, 2006 three-hour drama is a tough watch for even his most ardent fans (myself included), and while it receives a new 4K restoration, its lack of structure is still a major sticking point for me.

If any film was to benefit from a 4K transfer, Inland Empire was not it. Filmed on Standard Definition video, this transfer benefits from AI-created upscaling, but it just can’t escape its original format. It looks ugly, amateur even, and even though Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons and Justin Theroux add class to the proceedings, it’s second tier Lynch.

The previous 2010 release by Optimum included a Guardian interview, a conversation with Mike Figgis, a masterclass with Lynch and an interview at the Cartier Foundation. None are included here, and instead we get 85-minute documentary Lynch and a short chat with Lynch in London. But the big extra here is 75 minutes of deleted content, bundled up More Things that Happened. It’s more of the same, though even more fragmented than the main feature.

Verdict: I’m a huge fan of Lynch, but for me this is his most impenetrable work, which gains little from its upscale polish. The deleted scenes are purely for the completists. 4/10

Nick Joy