Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

roxyagogo0810 This is one of the most underrated films ever. Some call it distracting and full of nonsense, but to me the film is beautifully telling that everything is intertwined - love and hatred, pleasure and pain, life and death. It shows there's always another side to things just like a messed-up Brit who actually is a guardian angel guiding the girl's lost soul all the way. I was only a kid when the film came out back in 1987, but it shook me with a huge magnitude and still does. When there's a light, there's also a shadow. My mind always circle back to this great piece of work at every phase of my life.

paperstreet-1 I first saw this movie the year of its release - and I loved it. 14 years later, being a huge David Lynch fan, I watched Mulholland Drive upon its release. I also fell in love with Mulholland Dr., and I couldn't help but notice so many parallels to Siesta. I didn't own Siesta, so I raced out on my bike to the only video store in town that had it available and took it home to watch it again. I was not disappointed; the film was just as good as I remembered it to be, and it is very Lynchian in style (having Isabella Rosselini in its cast really adds to that feeling). I truly recommend this movie to any fans of David Lynch.

hmesci Has everything going for it as a cult film. Plot, cast, music... As said in the other comment, it stands solid against time. Every time I manage to see it, I get struck by it as if I see it the first time. I think this is one masterpiece that re-makers of old movies will never attempt.By the way, I once looked for the book in London UK and a second-hand book dealer close to St Martin's Lane checked a catalog and claimed there is no such book and would not listen to me... Few year's later, I found multiple copies (Penguin too) in Toronto Canada ! Wonder if the book did not get published in UK ?

FieCrier Claire "On a Dare" wakes up by an airport runway wearing a red dress. She's dirty and bruised. She has no idea where she is or how she got there, or even what day it is, but she does remember who she is and retains most of her memories. She strips off her dress by a creek to wash off it and herself what seems to be blood, and sunbathes nude to dry off - sustained full-frontal nudity within the first two minutes of the movie, jeepers!I'm reminded of a line from the novel The Screaming Mimi by Frederic Brown, "There's murder before the story proper starts, and murder after it ends; the actual story begins with a naked woman and ends with one, which is a good opening and a good ending, but everything between isn't nice."Claire, finding the blood washes off her thinks someone else must be dead. Discovering and remembering that she is in Spain, she thinks she may have killed her ex-lover Augustine, or his new wife.Claire had been due to skydive without a parachute into a dormant (or artificial?) volcano covered with a net to catch her, that will be on fire. If she misses the net, or hits it after it has burned too much, she's dead in Death Valley. Receiving a letter from her ex-lover who doesn't want her to do the stunt, she flies to Spain to try to get him to return to her, despite her having been married to her promoter for six years or so.Claire has some strange adventures, sometimes pretty horrible. A fat taxi driver with tin dentures offers to help, but his price is sex, or rape. An eccentric brawling artist tries to help her, and doesn't seem to have any motive other than "the good you give out is returned to you."Sprinkled throughout are shots of Claire skydiving; like Roger Ebert, I couldn't tell if this was "fantasy [...] memory, or anticipation" not that it makes much difference. Throughout "falling" gets mentioned a lot in other ways. Claire, in a Catholic church says she feels like she is falling, the artist talks about how the only kind of falling that isn't failing is falling in love, etc.One thing the title seems to refer to is a siesta Claire's ex-lover takes in a small building near a church, where they perhaps used to have sex.Bruce Joel Rubin wrote a screenplay in the 1970s that was considered one of the best unproduceable scripts. This movie seems in a way an attempt to make it, though it is based on a novel. This movie didn't really do it for me, and perhaps time would be better spent reading the novel. Rubin's screenplay was produced a few years after this movie, and turned out quite well.