Inland Empire (film) it "A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma" and Jim Emerson (editor of RogerEbert.com) gave it 4 stars and praised it: "When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's "Sunset Boulevard", Lynch's "Persona" or Lynch's "8½", they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", Jean-Luc Godard's "Pierrot le Fou", Buñuel and Dalí's "Un Chien Andalou", Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite) and others". However, Carina Chocano of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that "the film, which begins promisingly, disappears down so many rabbit holes (one of them
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) Barrel"), a title Debussy found so offensive that Satie changed it to "Avec camaraderie" ("With Friendship"). He may already have been dissatisfied with the work as it stood. After publisher E. Demets rejected the score in the first week of August, Satie told his protégé Alexis Roland-Manuel, "I am going to destroy the "Préludes flasques", and begin anew." He followed through on the second part of this statement with the "Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)", which he completed by August 23 and successfully sold to Demets in September. In his 1948 biography of Satie, Rollo H. Myers cited Roland-Manuel