Under the Silver Lake

Following the exquisite meta-horror It Follows, idiosyncratic director David Robert Mitchell has taken a hallucinogenic trip through Los Angeles: his meandering neo-noir Under The Silver Lake revolves around thirty-three-year-old Sam, who, after the disappearance of his mysterious neighbour Sarah, embarks on a surreal quest to decode the secrets, scandals and conspiracies lurking in the depths of the City of Angels. A hypnotic and entertaining thriller of almost Lynchian personality, it is propelled as much by its central obsessive figure as it is by its exquisite soundtrack, plot serpentines and myriad pop culture references that together compose a kind of secret history of L.A. A film that is both a subversive pun and an unconventional homage to the era of classic Hollywood.