Under the Silver Lake
Sam is a handsome 33-year-old boy. Sam lives in a state of delusion when he discovers a mysterious woman named Sarah, who plays in his apartment swimming pool without care. But when that girl suddenly disappears, Sam tries to find her everywhere through Los Angeles to break the mystery of her disappearance. Perhaps the search journey will lead to mysterious depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy in a vast city.
29 November 1978, Tempe, Arizona, USA
19 July 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 November 1959, San Diego, California, USA
31 May 1974, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 July 1998, Glendale, Arizona, USA
13 November 1956, Spearman, Texas, USA
31 January 1975, Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
13 April 1972, Reno, Nevada, USA
October 01, 2018
The pretense of muddling nonsense with intellectual rigor means that it will forever be impossible to consider Under the Silver Lake as anything other than an exercise in smugness from a creative mind that has only the barest grasp on the theses it posits
May 17, 2018
Mitchell is taking a big swing with his third feature, trying something not just new but also more unconventional, ambitious, and even potentially off-putting.
May 16, 2018
Ambitious and fascinating. It's the first Mitchell film that truly held me, the first that feels like the work of a potentially major artist...
August 30, 2018
I thought this tale was both creative and fun, but I'm a sucker for the latent power of pop culture.
November 12, 2018
Under the Silver Lake is not science fiction or fantasy, but it is just surreal enough to make you think it could be.
May 17, 2018
Mitchell has interesting ideas, and his actors seem to be having fun, but that's not enough when the film itself lacks atmosphere, or tension, or emotional engagement.
May 16, 2018
It's fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist.
October 17, 2018
Under the Silver Lake never finds a reason for being as weird as it is, making for a confusing and frustrating experience despite its hypnotic visuals and great score.
August 24, 2018
... a sprawling, painfully stylish and skittish noir odyssey.
May 16, 2018
Pretty soon the commentary on how Hollywood uses women as decoration outweighs the fact that Mitchell's just repeating the cycle - albeit with better-than-average outfits.
August 24, 2018
A film which mistakes mockery and meaningfulness for fetish and frenzy.
May 16, 2018
It's the kind of raggedy-ass thriller that only gets made when a young filmmaker, emboldened by success, moves past virtues of concision, hoping to summon the full, meandering spell of a paranoid dream. Don't hold it against him.
