Who is the reigning king of mysteriousness and bizarre-a-tude? Why, David Lynch of course. So, who could possibly think of a more mysterious place to have a cocktail than Lynch’s very own, completely impossible to gain entrance to, nightclub?

 

 

Descending into another world … David Lynch’s Silencio nightclub. Photograph: PR

 

 

Inside David Lynch’s Paris nightclub

 

Inspired by the deeply strange Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the film director has opened a nightclub in the French capital

 

by Fiachra Gibbons (The Guardian)

 

“There were no dwarves. No dancing men. No one talked backwards – until the daquiries kicked in – and with the exception of the Japanese cowboy who turned out to be a fashion designer, no one looked all that weird.

 

In fact, by the time Silencio, David Lynch’s new Paris nightclub-cum-salon-cum-laboratory of the weird closed its doors at dawn on Wednesday after its first night, nothing truly bizarre had happened. Except, and it’s a big except, there was no sign whatsoever of the presiding genius himself. David Lynch was not in the building.

 

It’s true he could have been watching us from behind one of the smoked-glass walls, stroking a vintage Nicolas Cage hairpiece while plotting new ways to freak us out…”

 

For the complete article and more photos of the interior of the space, click here.

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