Club Silencio, Mulholland Drive (2001)
At two in the morning Rita talks in her sleep. "Silencio. Silencio. No hay banda." She wakes and asks Betty to go somewhere with her.
A man walks onto an empty stage in front of a red curtain. "No hay banda. There is no band."
"It is an illusion."
A trumpet player walks on and plays. He lowers the trumpet and the trumpet keeps playing. He was the West Coast jazz trumpeter Conte Candoli, who died in December 2001, two months after the film opened in America.
"La Llorona de Los Ángeles", the crying woman of Los Angeles. Rebekah Del Rio sings "Llorando", Roy Orbison's "Crying" in Spanish, with no band behind her. Partway through she collapses. Her voice keeps singing.
Betty and Rita hold each other and cry. Then Betty opens her bag and finds a blue box that was not there before.
This scene was not originally intended. Before production Del Rio had visited Lynch and performed in his home studio. She sang it once. "And the one take that she sang, four minutes off the street, is the vocal that's in the film," Lynch said. The club was written around that performance.
The woman with blue hair in the box above the stage is Cori Glazer, the film's script supervisor. She has the last word in the film: "Silencio."
