“All of the music that Angelo composed for David Lynch’s films made me really want to work with him,” says Salles. “He’s someone who can tell the entire story of a film immediately on the piano. He’s quite unique in that way, and a lot of material that we used he created on the very first day of our collaboration. He was very passionate and very inventive.”
Ultimately, the sets, cinematography and music all serve in DARK WATER to highlight one of the film’s most omnipresent and threatening narrative elements: water—in all its forms, benign and menacing, from water stains and washing machines to bath water and city storms…all building to the film’s astonishing climactic deluge. Rain machines were brought in, as well as giant water cannons to drench the film’s sets. But the fates also cooperated throughout the production by providing an inordinately wet, cold and gloomy New York spring.
The cast and crew felt strangely blessed by the accursed weather. “With all the rain coming down, combined with the lighting and the design, there was this very eerie yet beautiful quality that seemed to surround us,” sums up Jennifer Connelly. “I think audiences will feel this, too, and find DARK WATER to be one of those wonderfully evocative scary movies you don’t see very much anymore—a story that is true to life and also very, very frightening.”
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