Rarely does David Lynch attach his name to a project that’s not his own — other than, say, something by his daughter — so we can’t help but be intrigued by his involvement with My Beautiful Broken Brain, a documentary that, sweetening the deal a bit, has just been acquired by Netflix to stream next month. It follows Lotje Sodderland, a woman who, at 34, suffered a brain hemorrhage and allowed her recovery to be followed by filmmaker Sophie Robinson. Per The Guardian, this pairing “initially filmed 150 hours of footage, most of it self-shot by Sodderland on her iPhone, which was edited to create this documentary piecing together Sodderland’s recovery.”
Although I could only dig up one review of the film, from that same article, it does much to paint Sodderland and Robinson’s project in a positive light; it might even help make clearer why Lynch became an executive producer when one reads that My Beautiful Broken Brain plays as “very dreamlike, sometimes terrifying.” Could this be Netflix’s finest premiere title? The odds are in its favor.
Have a look at the trailer below:
My Beautiful Broken Brain will premiere on Netflix on March 18.