D.H. Lawrence's powerful tale of a girl emerging into womanhood, interwoven with memories, dreams, and ghostly encounters across several generations.
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00:00:00The Brangwins, my family, have lived for generations on the marsh farm, a world enclosed.
00:00:22It was enough for the men that the earth heaved and opened its furrows to them.
00:00:26But the woman wanted another form of life than this.
00:00:30The woman wanted to see the far-off world of cities and governments and the active scope of men.
00:00:37This was a magic land to her, where secrets were made known and desires fulfilled.
00:00:47Oh, here we are. This looks like the place.
00:00:49Oh, here we are.
00:01:19All my life I've been afraid of that, of not being ready.
00:01:25Afraid that I would not recognise my moment, and there would be no flowering, or only a minor flower.
00:01:31I have felt, since I was about 16, somewhere back then, that my main stem has died, and what is left remains somehow undisclosed.
00:01:44My dear Ursula.
00:02:04I'm back in England again for a few months, before going out again, this time to India.
00:02:11I wonder if you still keep the memory of our times together.
00:02:17I've still got the little photograph of you.
00:02:20You must be changed since then.
00:02:25For it's about six years.
00:02:31I am fully six years older.
00:02:33I've lived through another life since I knew you at Coste.
00:02:38I wonder if you'd care to see me.
00:02:43I shall come up to Derby next week to see my guardian, and I could call in Nottingham.
00:02:48And we might have tea together.
00:02:50Will you let me know?
00:02:53I shall look for your answer.
00:02:56Anton Skrebensky.
00:02:58Will you wait?
00:03:05Will you wait?
00:03:08Or will you go on?
00:03:11No, wait.
00:03:28No, wait.
00:03:47No, wait.
00:03:49No, wait.
00:03:51Why, has he come back?
00:04:02Ursula?
00:04:03Are you all right?
00:04:04Oh, sorry, Eddie.
00:04:05I didn't realize.
00:04:06Don't worry.
00:04:07Eddie, could I borrow an envelope?
00:04:09Sure.
00:04:14I don't see, really, why we attribute some special mystery to life, do you?
00:04:29We understand it as we understand electricity, even.
00:04:34But that doesn't warrant our saying it is something special.
00:04:38I don't see, really, why we should imagine there is a special order of life,
00:04:43and life alone.
00:05:13I don't know.
00:05:14I don't know.
00:05:15I don't know.
00:05:16I don't know.
00:05:17I don't know.
00:05:18I don't know.
00:05:20What's going on?
00:05:22Some men who are like...
00:05:23One minute.
00:05:30one minute
00:05:40has it been so long? yes. when did you get back? two years ago
00:05:53how long are you staying this time in England? I'm not sure but not later than
00:06:03September I believe. you believe? have you an appointment in India? yes I have just
00:06:10six months here. will you like being out there? oh I think so. there's a good deal
00:06:19of social life and plenty going on. hunting polo and always a good horse and
00:06:26plenty of work. any amount of work. what more could you want?
00:06:38I'm not afraid of the darkness in England especially when you're here. it's soft and
00:06:43natural to me. but in Africa it seemed massive and fluid with terror. the blacks
00:06:55know it. they worship it really, the darkness.
00:07:01one almost likes it, the fear.
00:07:05something sensual.
00:07:09did you always love me?
00:07:12I had to come back to you. you're always at the back of everything. but do you love
00:07:18me?
00:07:20yes. yes. yes, I love you.
00:07:33he seemed like the living darkness upon me. like the unrelaxing softness of fate.
00:07:39the warm flow of his kiss traveled over me like a wave. as if light fell on my soul for a moment,
00:07:52struggled and went out. I was struck. it had been so long since anyone had kissed me like that.
00:08:00the stupid lights. the stupid, artificial, exaggerated town. fuming its lights. it does not exist really.
00:08:13it rests upon the unlimited darkness. like a gleam of colored oil on dark water. but what is it?
00:08:21nothing. nothing. just nothing.
00:08:28oh till the end when life's in shadows warm. love will be found the sweetest song of all.
00:08:42just a song at twilight when the lights are low. and the flickering shadows softly come and glow.
00:08:59though the heart be weary sat the day and long. still to us at twilight
00:09:10when the light comes love's old song. comes love's old sweet song.
00:09:21hello Anton. how are you?
00:09:24oh look what Anton's got.
00:09:26who do you think those are?
00:09:27no one at the time.
00:09:28what do you want?
00:09:30i knew from the moment he came back we were mortal enemies.
00:09:34but there is nothing i can do.
00:09:36say thank you Anton.
00:09:37because i want him. and always have.
00:09:39now we keep that from moment.
00:09:40even if it means locking away my heart and soul. i will do it.
00:09:45thank you Teresa. a very special one.
00:09:47if my father knew the truth of what is between Anton Skrebensky and me.
00:09:52he would go mad with rage.
00:09:54take your things with you.
00:09:55here you are.
00:09:56good night.
00:09:57good night Anton.
00:09:58sleep well.
00:09:59good night thank you.
00:10:00my goodness they've grown.
00:10:13you look exactly the same as the last time we met.
00:10:17the only reason i know the years have passed is the size of your children.
00:10:21where are you staying?
00:10:25in nottingham.
00:10:26i have some leave.
00:10:36i wish i could complete my life.
00:10:41complete what?
00:10:43i don't know.
00:10:47i'm sad today.
00:10:48and i've always felt blessed.
00:10:55but today i'm sad.
00:10:59i'm sad too.
00:11:08you don't seem worried about things being separate.
00:11:12i don't know what you mean.
00:11:14i have a life.
00:11:18a home in the army.
00:11:20and i have another life with you.
00:11:26and i'm sad when i leave you.
00:11:28i have a life with you.
00:11:41we've time.
00:11:42my train's not due yet.
00:11:58i really want to go back to my bed.
00:11:59i have a life with me.
00:12:00i have only one.
00:12:05i i will 뜨gen.
00:12:07i will embrace it.
00:12:10i will embrace it.
00:12:11it's weird to always'.
00:12:14and and yes.
00:12:15be turned into all.
00:12:16we smash it up.
00:12:17Oh it powers.
00:12:19Let's go.
00:12:49Let's go.
00:13:19Let's go.
00:13:49Let's go.
00:14:20It was as if I had received another nature.
00:14:24It is a kind of death which is not death.
00:14:27It is going beyond the bounds.
00:14:28I walked through the world of artificial light immune.
00:14:35The world was not strong.
00:14:37I was strong.
00:14:39College, my ordinary routine, was merely a cover to my dark and powerful underlife.
00:14:45My everyday self was just the same, except that I had another stronger self that knew the darkness.
00:14:55There is your herbarium with the rest of your grass, Besson and Zershala.
00:15:02Oh, I've come without them today.
00:15:03On the morning after his wedding to my mother, my father said he felt as if the heavens had fallen to the earth
00:15:22and he woke up among the ruins.
00:15:23It must have been like that for Noah to waken when everyone was under the flood.
00:15:29To be survivors with time to squander in a new world.
00:15:34Like Anton and me this morning.
00:15:36We are conscienceless gods and the world has come under our spell.
00:15:41I wish we could go away together.
00:15:43Oh, I'd love that.
00:15:44Where shall we go?
00:15:47Dorothy has a cottage.
00:15:49Oh, yes, let's.
00:15:50What will you tell your family?
00:15:53Tell them I'm going to London.
00:15:56I suppose we should get married.
00:15:58I don't think I want to marry you.
00:16:00Why not?
00:16:01Because it's so magnificently free as it is, it's a pity to draw attention to.
00:16:06But I'll tell you if I ever want to marry you.
00:16:11I can see your wild ancestors in you all right.
00:16:15You're much more at home prancing in a wolf skinner than that dress.
00:16:20You're much more at home prancing in a wolf skinner than that dress.
00:16:50It suits you.
00:16:53What have you got there?
00:16:55Are we going to eat these?
00:16:56Yes, for supper.
00:16:58Are they safe?
00:16:59We're experts.
00:17:01You're not going, are you?
00:17:02I have to get supper ready.
00:17:04Well, let me help you.
00:17:04No, you stay and talk to Ursula.
00:17:06Dorothy, I'm not a married man yet.
00:17:08I want to sleep out of doors tonight.
00:17:16I can't sleep in a house anymore.
00:17:18I hate houses and I hate beds.
00:17:20There's something hateful to me in your coming to me in a bed.
00:17:23We shall take rugs and sleep on the downs.
00:17:29I'm glad you want me to come with you.
00:17:31Won't we need torches?
00:17:33We have the moonlight.
00:17:35Everything indoors is artificial.
00:17:36I hate rooms.
00:17:37Of course, I should have known you hate rooms.
00:17:42I hate rooms too.
00:17:43Oh, God, you're so transparent, flirting with Dorothy.
00:17:46Because you can't satisfy one woman, you hang around others.
00:17:50Oh, don't I satisfy you?
00:17:53No, you don't satisfy me.
00:17:55You never satisfy me now.
00:17:57What does it mean to me?
00:18:00You're having me.
00:18:01You're having me.
00:18:31You're having me.
00:19:01You're having me.
00:19:31You're having me.
00:20:01You're having me.
00:20:03You're having me.
00:20:04You're having me.
00:20:05You're having me.
00:20:06You're having me.
00:20:07You're having me.
00:20:08You're having me.
00:20:09You're having me.
00:20:10You're having me.
00:20:11You're having me.
00:20:12You're having me.
00:20:13You're having me.
00:20:14You're having me.
00:20:15You're having me.
00:20:16You're having me.
00:20:17You're having me.
00:20:18You're having me.
00:20:19You're having me.
00:20:20You're having me.
00:20:21You're having me.
00:20:22You're having me.
00:20:23You're having me.
00:20:24You're having me.
00:20:25You're having me.
00:20:26You're having me.
00:20:27BIRDS CHIRP
00:20:57It felt as if I was standing at the bottom of the sea, and the birds swam in waves over my head.
00:21:07And the world lay beneath the flood, in a terrifying swim of molten light.
00:21:19Why are you crying?
00:21:23So beautiful.
00:21:28It's a pity anyone ever has to wake up.
00:21:31I'm very glad you did not go around naked, or all women would fall in love with you.
00:21:45I'm very jealous of your body.
00:21:49I love it so much.
00:21:52I often think you're looking for more than me.
00:21:54I always need to be in love, Anton.
00:22:01I always need to be swept off my feet.
00:22:03I've been very quiet since you came back.
00:22:12I've been very quiet since you came back.
00:22:26I didn't say what you did in London.
00:22:33You haven't said Anton Skrebensky's name once.
00:22:38And lots more.
00:22:39You've been crying.
00:22:40He wants me to marry him.
00:22:46And he wants me to go to India.
00:22:49Is that something to cry about?
00:22:51India would be interesting.
00:22:53I'd like to go to India.
00:22:55I would like to go to Africa as well, but India would do.
00:22:58It wouldn't be the same.
00:23:01I would be married.
00:23:02I would be an army wife.
00:23:07Do you love him?
00:23:09Yes, I know I do.
00:23:11Don't you think that will be enough?
00:23:14Enough.
00:23:15For you?
00:23:19I don't know.
00:23:22I know I can't exist without him.
00:23:25That's curious.
00:23:27Why?
00:23:29I find it a distraction.
00:23:30Letting one's feelings invade a subject before you know what it is.
00:23:34Oh, Goodwin, you are lucky.
00:23:36I wish I could stop myself.
00:23:52Do you see much of Anton?
00:23:53Sometimes.
00:23:58Every day.
00:24:00How is college?
00:24:04Oh.
00:24:07I don't go very often.
00:24:09Why?
00:24:10I hate academics.
00:24:13They think it's better to be clerks and professors than to be fertile beings.
00:24:18They sit there, in their gowns and spectacles, pretending, when all the time they are lurking, blood-sniffing creatures, peering through the jungle darkness, snuffling out their desires.
00:24:37That's what they are.
00:24:39That's what they are.
00:24:40Only they won't admit it.
00:24:43Well, I do.
00:24:44I want to be free.
00:24:49There's a leopard.
00:24:49I like leopards.
00:24:50I like leopards.
00:24:52You'd make a good leopard.
00:24:54If I draw one, I'll draw it with your face.
00:24:56I have fallen in and out of love so many times.
00:25:06Anton, Winifred, David, Anton.
00:25:11So much action.
00:25:14Wearying repetition over and over, without any understanding.
00:25:20Yet I know of no other way to find my happiness.
00:25:23And we have a right to happiness.
00:25:45Go through there, Shirley!
00:25:46No!
00:25:53What are you doing here?
00:26:04How was your exam?
00:26:07Fine.
00:26:14My pay will be more when we get to India.
00:26:16We should be able to get along.
00:26:23You'd like India.
00:26:24You'd be able to ride.
00:26:25And you'd know just about everyone.
00:26:27India sounds lovely.
00:26:29I can just see myself riding an elephant between rows of obsequious natives.
00:26:36Oh, but I don't know.
00:26:40I should be glad to leave England.
00:26:42Everything's so meagre and paltry.
00:26:47It's so unspiritual.
00:26:49God, I hate democracy.
00:26:50What do you mean, do you hate democracy?
00:26:52Only greedy and ugly people come to the top in a democracy, because they're the people who push themselves there.
00:27:01Only degenerate races are democratic.
00:27:04What do you want, then? An aristocracy?
00:27:06Yes, I do want an aristocracy.
00:27:09And I'd rather have an aristocracy of birth than of money.
00:27:11The people elect the government.
00:27:13Look at England.
00:27:15Who are the people?
00:27:17Each of them is a money interest.
00:27:19I hate equality on a money basis.
00:27:21It's the equality of dirt.
00:27:23I don't care about money.
00:27:25I wasn't talking about you.
00:27:27No.
00:27:28You're talking about getting married and going to India.
00:27:29Mmm.
00:27:32I suggest the 28th of August, a week before we sail.
00:27:34I don't think I want to be married.
00:27:35Do you mean never?
00:27:36Or not just yet?
00:27:37No.
00:27:38I don't think I want to be married.
00:27:41Do you mean never?
00:27:49Or not just yet?
00:27:52I mean never.
00:27:54Never.
00:27:55married? do you mean never? or not just yet?
00:28:07I mean never.
00:28:25please don't.
00:28:45Anton! Anton! why are you like this? what are you doing this for? please don't.
00:28:54the words came without my knowing they didn't mean anything. shall we sit down?
00:29:09hey you won't cry again will you?
00:29:13I didn't know you cared so much. I didn't.
00:29:26I would have knocked over myself.
00:29:30but I care all the world.
00:29:34oh my lord.
00:29:35I care all the world.
00:29:37I care for nothing else.
00:29:39neither in life nor in death.
00:29:43and for what?
00:29:44and for you
00:29:46to be with me.
00:30:02don't leave me tonight.
00:30:04you have to go home.
00:30:10no please!
00:30:23did you sleep well?
00:30:24very well.
00:30:26very well.
00:30:27so did I.
00:30:30and you love me.
00:30:33i do.
00:30:35and we'll be married on the 28th of august.
00:30:37yes.
00:30:38i've wasted three years.
00:30:51don't take it so hard.
00:30:52you haven't wasted anything.
00:30:54just don't have a degree that's all.
00:30:57you still qualifier to be a school teacher.
00:30:58i did test very important.
00:31:00but ursula,
00:31:02you have everything to look forward to.
00:31:03yes.
00:31:04no.
00:31:07i've wasted three years.
00:31:08i've wasted three years.
00:31:10don't take it so hard.
00:31:11you haven't wasted anything.
00:31:13i just don't have a degree that's all.
00:31:15you still qualified to be a school teacher.
00:31:17and my dad is very fortunate.
00:31:19but ursula...
00:31:21you have everything to look forward to.
00:31:23you have everything to look forward to. you're getting married and you're going
00:31:28to India. oh god. what's the matter? don't you love him? oh it isn't a question of
00:31:38loving him. I love him well enough. certainly more than I shall ever love
00:31:45anybody else in the world. I don't care about love. I don't value it. I don't care whether I love or
00:32:00whether I don't. whether I have love or whether I haven't. what is it to me? then
00:32:08what do you care about? I don't know. love. love, love, love. what does it mean? what does it amount to?
00:32:21so much personal gratification.
00:32:25I could love a hundred men. one after the other.
00:32:34why should I end with a Skrebensky? the question is what do you want?
00:32:41is it just other men? because if it is you better marry Anton. the other can only end badly.
00:32:56and I'm to marry out of fear. fear?
00:33:06of my own nature.
00:33:10so if you take the smaller ones to Lincolnshire when you return you can distribute the rest of your
00:33:20things among the bigger trunks. I'll not close them up until you come back.
00:33:24now Anton gave me a box of labels and name tags. where did I put them?
00:33:30when are you off? now. how long will you be away? only a week. a week on the coast at his great aunt's. it's a house party.
00:33:50now farewell I suppose. here we are. the embassy country club calcutta. lieutenant and mrs skrebensky.
00:34:01suppose I better put british embassy. they won't know which embassy.
00:34:04Ursula the captain to take you to the station.
00:34:07he's early. she's just coming.
00:34:09what's wrong? nothing. we were saying goodbye.
00:34:30I wish you wouldn't wear that silly hat, Ursula. it doesn't suit you.
00:35:00we were saying goodbye.
00:35:02they're really silly.
00:35:16well, he's all used to it.
00:35:20you're lying.
00:35:22can you please?
00:35:24you see no one in Africa?
00:35:29can you tell me please where i might find mr skrebensky who who is it it's miss brangwood
00:35:44oh there is no miss brangwood mire ursula it's all right it's here anton katherine
00:35:51how wonderful louisa and here's oggy has your mother come she's giving the driver a ticking off
00:36:02went too fast you know what she's like oh dear george go and help mrs phillips with her
00:36:07this is ursula brangwood i'm delighted to meet you my fiance indeed miss brangwood are you
00:36:18anton's fiance a poor girl you have our sympathy this is louisa and katherine phillips don't take
00:36:26any notice of them hello will you show miss brangwood in her room yes george will bring your bags along
00:36:31later is this all your luggage my dear you should speak to her about traveling abroad
00:36:38you lose most of it oggy oh my dear welcome anton mrs phillips how did life
00:36:47you have such beautiful men
00:37:17i imagine you must play an instrument no i'm afraid i don't my father does you are an artist
00:37:25then do you paint no i don't paint i suppose i'm only an artist in that i'm continually recreating
00:37:35myself
00:37:36what did she say when she says her father does such a shame
00:37:44would you be a sweetie and ask ethel for mrs phillips sunshade
00:37:49yes of course oggy really it's not necessary
00:37:51yes sir i won't mind no it's no trouble really
00:38:02oh excuse me i'm sorry to bother you but could you get mrs phillips sunshade
00:38:09i'm sorry to bother you but could you get mrs phillips sunshade
00:38:11oh it's in the cloakroom under the stairs
00:38:14oh thank you
00:38:15oh thank you
00:38:19oh my god
00:38:23oh my god
00:38:26oh my god
00:38:30well we got to the station Ingram and I and there was a private from our
00:38:59regiment and his girl locked in a passionate embrace she couldn't tear
00:39:04herself away from him Clem she said Clem when you get out there you give him one
00:39:10for me absolutely terrifying she was Clem was our battlin from Barrow Inn Furnace
00:39:29at last I can have you to myself
00:39:51why don't they frighten you they
00:40:00all those people I don't know I'm not afraid of them what is there to be afraid
00:40:10I feel so oh I don't know
00:40:18is this it
00:40:29is this all it is is this all it is
00:40:39what
00:40:40my fulfillment
00:40:44what
00:40:50much
00:40:51much
00:40:56much
00:41:06much
00:41:07much
00:41:11Under the moon.
00:41:41Under the moon.
00:42:11Under the moon.
00:42:41Under the moon.
00:43:11Under the moon.
00:43:41have you done with me it isn't me you've done with me we've done with each other
00:44:04what have I done I don't know it's finished it has been a failure
00:44:14what will you tell them that our engagement is broken
00:44:23is it my fault
00:44:32you
00:44:37I was only ever exciting to you
00:44:49I was never beautiful to you
00:45:02no don't tell me I don't want to know the reason I'm only your mother it's none of my business
00:45:21Anton Skrebansky's name will not be mentioned we will not mention Anton Skrebansky's name in this house
00:45:27dear Anton
00:45:31since you left me I have suffered a great deal
00:45:35so I've come to myself
00:45:38I cannot tell you the remorse I feel for my wicked perverse behavior
00:45:44it was given to me to love you
00:45:47but I must have the moon in my keeping
00:45:50because I could not have it
00:45:52everything must go
00:45:54I do not know if you can ever forgive me
00:45:58I could die with shame
00:46:01to think of my behavior with you during our last times
00:46:03and I don't know if I could ever bear to look you in the face again
00:46:07truly
00:46:09the best thing would be for me to die
00:46:12and cover my fantasies forever
00:46:15but I find I am with child
00:46:19so that cannot be
00:46:21it is your child
00:46:24and for that reason
00:46:26I must revere it
00:46:27and submit my body entirely to its welfare
00:46:30entertaining no more thought of death
00:46:33therefore
00:46:35because you once loved me
00:46:37and because this child is your child
00:46:40I ask you to have me back
00:46:43I swear to you
00:46:45to be a dutiful wife
00:46:46and to serve you in all things
00:46:50once I am with you again
00:46:52I shall ask no more than to rest in your shelter all my life
00:46:57for now I only hate myself
00:47:00and my own conceited foolishness
00:47:03I love you
00:47:05I love the thought of you
00:47:08you are natural and decent all through
00:47:12whilst I was so false
00:47:15I love you
00:47:17I love you
00:47:19I love you
00:51:19She's delirious.
00:51:20I'll be right back.
00:51:50I shall bring the child up on my own.
00:51:55Ursula, there is no child.
00:52:02There is no child.
00:52:07Don't cry, Ursula.
00:52:14Don't cry, Ursula.
00:52:23Don't cry, Ursula.
00:52:24Your father loves you.
00:52:27Don't cry, Ursula.
00:52:37Don't cry, Ursula.
00:52:40There is somebody who will love you for what you are, and not for what he wants of you.
00:52:53No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:53:23Don't cry, I'll be right back.
00:53:53Don't cry, Ursula.
00:54:53David, forgive me.
00:55:53Get up, Ursula.
00:56:05You must get up.
00:56:06I cannot make a man after my own image.
00:56:19I must be patient.
00:56:24In time he will come.
00:56:26And I will know him when he comes.
00:56:29Until then...
00:56:31I'll put you these.
00:56:43It's autumn.
00:56:48Is it autumn?
00:56:54Yes.
00:57:05What's that sound?
00:57:07It's the rain.
00:57:19Grandma used to say the earth was weeping when it rained.
00:57:25It's been raining all the time.
00:57:26You've been ill.
00:57:27There will only remain that we detach ourselves and become unique.
00:57:50Moving in freedom more than the angels.
00:57:54Having no laws, but the laws of our own being.
00:57:57And the rainbow stood on the earth.
00:58:10That new, clean, naked bodies would issue to a new generation.
00:58:15To a new growth.
00:58:17Rising to the light and the wind.
00:58:20And the clean rain of heaven.
00:58:26Until then.
00:58:27Film.
00:58:27jeweiled to the era.
00:58:28Fifteen.
00:58:33Name.
00:58:37I
00:58:41love.
00:58:44Bye.
00:58:46Bye.
00:58:49Bye.
00:58:54Bye.
00:58:55Bye.
00:58:55Bye.
00:58:56Bye.
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