"Surveillance" poster

Surveillance

Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, 2008
Cast: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman

Review by Rada Djurica

One of the films that we had a chance to see on at New Author Film Festival was a brand-new film by David Lynch's daughter, Jennifer Chambers Lynch. Her work resembles her father's (David Lynch) in the use of close-ups and the obssesion with suffering and abuse.

Her Surveillance uses an aggressive soundtrack, including an old song by the Violet Femmes during a scene of rapid-fire shots of a massacre perpetrated by two assailants, as they enter and kill everyone in their sleep.

Surveillance at its best approximates her father at his best (Twin Peaks, Lost Highway).

Lynch, Wenders and Madonna at the New Author Film Festival