Under the Silver Lake

After the meta-horror Escape, director David Robert Mitchell embarks on a hallucinogenic journey through Los Angeles. His meandering neo-noir Under the Silver Lake follows a thirty-three-year-old Sam who, after a mysterious neighbor Sarah disappears, launches into a surreal investigation and uncovers secrets, scandals, and conspiracies hidden in the depths of the City of Angels.

This hypnotic thriller in the Lynchian vein is driven by an obsessive central figure, a refined soundtrack, narrative twists, and numerous pop-culture references that together form a kind of secret history of L.A. The film works simultaneously as a subversive game and an unconventional homage to the era of classical Hollywood.