The Fiver | Wedges, thin ends and the capacity for cringeworthiness

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Like all liberal, progressive, often insufferable culture-signalling tea-time emails, The Fiver likes to advertise the fact we watch David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive at least once a month. Please, reader, don’t tell us you haven’t seen it? It is as brilliant and disquieting as anything Lynch has ever done. It is psychotically lucid, oppressively strange, but with a powerfully er0tic and humanly intimate dimension that Lynch never quite achieved elsewhere. It is a fantasia of illusion and identi … [Hang on, have you nicked that from Peter Bradshaw’s review? – Fiver Ed].

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