Playing like an elaboration of the powerful audition scene in "Mulholland Dr.," "Who Am I This Time" is just about perfect.
Christopher Walken is Harry, the runaway star of a small-town theatre troupe. Off-stage, he's crippled with shyness, unable even to make eye contact. Onstage, he's, well, an actor of Christopher Walken's caliber. His lead performances bring the audience to tears and cause the young ladies in town to swoon.
New in town, Susan Sarandon is cast as Blanche opposite Walken's virtuosic Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire." She instanly falls for Walken, without knowing his true nature.
The scenes in the town are intentionally broad. The film takes place in a Gilmore Girls-esque universe where the townspeople are all on a first-name basis with each other. The effect of this is that the artificial scenes onstage are more real than the external scenes. The acting is so good in the play that it instantly becomes its own story. By the end of the sixty-minute story, Sarandon has managed to invert reality for Walken. If he can't communicate except when he's acting, why not pretend he's always acting?
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