Interesting in places, but let down by a narrator/director who is as dull as dishwater.

A definitive statement about how the movies have distorted our perceptions of this city's architectural, cultural and historical identity ..

Blends a complex kaleidoscopic portrait of the city and a powerful work of film criticism with Andersen's personal story of living in Los Angeles.

Its first half a sensuous nature idyll, it then gives way to an experimental-cinema bad trip whose fragmented domination interlude is redolent of LSD and Kenneth Anger.