Elena Del Rio on David Lynch
From Jonathan Busch's report at VU Weekly (n.d.) :
Last fall, Del Rio finished a book on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and performance in film.
“It’s called Powers of Affection. It’s about how [Deleuze] relates to the way the body behaves in the cinema in terms of gesture, movement and dance. There are behaviours of the body that interrupt the logical reasoning of the narrative.”
The famous Silencio nightclub sequence in David Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive is an example to which Del Rio refers.
“What Lynch does in this film is he takes away any subjective or objective anchors [which is] very much tied with classical Hollywood and the realistic development of events,” she explains.
“In the Silencio scene, we don’t know why the tone changes so drastically, from the two women [Naomi Watts and Laura Harring] being happy and having started a love affair, then this woman [Rebecca Del Rio; no relation, I think] comes on stage and starts crying. We have no idea where this incredibly affective moment emerges from. Precisely because its reason is taken away from us, by disturbing the realism, the affect grows intensely.”
Her new book is not yet published, it seems. But I wonder, is it written in Spanish? I don't understand Spanish much...
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