But, never–at least in my mind–has he succeeded in making the audience feel saudade, to the extent of characters like Laura, Rita and Betty, until The Return, particularly in Part 16. From Laura Palmer sobbing to Julee Cruise’s “Questions In A World Of Blue” in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me to Rita and Betty tearing up to Rebekah Del Rio’s “Llorando” inside Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, Lynch has effectively captured saudade as experienced by his characters. Lynch has been evoking saudade throughout his career. “We all experience within us what the Portuguese call ‘saudade,’ an inexplicable longing, an unnamed and enigmatic yearning of the soul, and it is this feeling that lives in the realms of imagination and inspiration, and is the breeding ground for the sad song, for the love song,” he explains.įor David Lynch (and Nick Cave, for that matter), saudade isn’t a foreign concept. In his lecture The Secret Life Of The Love Song, investigating the necessary duality of sadness and pain in love songs, which he calls “lifelines thrown into the galaxies by a drowning man,” Nick Cave invokes the term “saudade,” an untranslatable Portuguese word likely gathered from his years living in Brazil.
And I know I’m talking with a lot of assurance–Side effects!
Well hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers and Twin Peaks fanatics! You are awake–100%! And you know what that means–time to head to the Roadhouse for our weepy penultimate Lost In The Bang Bang Bar for Twin Peaks: The Return Part 16.
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