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Celebrated actor and actress Sir Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Dame Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this movie by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence's passionate relationship with Frieda Weekley.
Celebrated actor and actress Sir Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Dame Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this movie by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence's passionate relationship with Frieda Weekley.
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00:00:00You
00:00:30On the little bank, below the orchard, beyond the gay pink blossom, under the beech and hedge, am I forever making love to you.
00:00:43The weald, the enormous bed between the downs, grows hazy with sunshine.
00:00:51Slow cattle stir on the steep meadow nearby.
00:00:54On the little bank, our two souls glow like blossoms, a start with gladness.
00:01:10No, I am not here. I am not here.
00:01:15Life, twisting its crazed machinery, has conveyed this thing that sits and writes hither,
00:01:21has taken away to that hell in the city, something of you.
00:01:28But you and I, you and I, on the little bank where bluebells droop, sit and make love to each other.
00:01:38As you sit on the trestle, I, on the ground, the glitter of the buckle of your shoe laughs like an eye at me.
00:01:48And I, shy of your face, still bend to woo your feet, and touching your ankles, try to find you and fill my soul with you.
00:02:00I know.
00:02:06I know.
00:02:07Oh, yes, Frida.
00:02:10And so do I.
00:02:12And so do I.
00:02:12And so do I.
00:02:26And so do I.
00:02:31Next, City Light, service to Luskheim, the Luskheim, and the Luskheim, the Luskheim, and the Luskheim, and the Service will be available to the Luskheim.
00:03:01Excuse me.
00:03:20Could you tell me when the moment's connection is behind it downstairs?
00:03:24Please, Susie.
00:03:31Please, Susie.
00:03:41Please, Susie.
00:03:47Please, Susie.
00:03:54Forgive me, madam, but we are both seeking the same wisdom.
00:04:24We get hundreds of people like you, all searching for the secret soul of D.H. Lawrence.
00:04:29Oh, aye, ten a penny.
00:04:31Here, especially this year, centenary, like a swarm of locusts devouring every available
00:04:37fact.
00:04:38Well, you're a very fortunate woman.
00:04:40Really?
00:04:41You met me.
00:04:42If you buy the coffee, I'll tell you why.
00:04:45The fact is, I know all about D.H. Lawrence.
00:04:49Absolutely everything.
00:04:51You go on holiday to the South Seas and there are these little boys who will dive to the
00:04:54bottom of the ocean to retrieve pennies.
00:04:56In Rome, there are bottom-pinching Italians who will show you the secrets of the Vatican.
00:05:01In Cairo, there are willing natives to sell you filthy postcards.
00:05:04I'm a little of each, except I live in Nottingham.
00:05:08You're a bullshit merchant.
00:05:11Well, so I'm a bullshit merchant.
00:05:13But you'll dive to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve the secrets of D.H. Lawrence.
00:05:18For the price of a cup of coffee, yes.
00:05:21Unless you fancy the filthy postcards.
00:05:23Not really.
00:05:24I'm more for the pretty views.
00:05:26Oh, well, that's relevant.
00:05:27You see, a lot of people come here, all they know about Lawrence is that he was the guy
00:05:30who wrote the filthy books and gamekeepers and chattelies and flowers when he watched it.
00:05:35I am a serious student, young sir.
00:05:37A serious, mature student.
00:05:39Mature student?
00:05:40It's a contradiction in terms.
00:05:42Oh, all right.
00:05:43If you are a serious, mature student, here's a test.
00:05:47What did Lawrence say about this place?
00:05:50He didn't write much about canteens.
00:05:52Not the canteen, the university.
00:05:56Didn't he write a poem about it?
00:05:59In Nottingham, that dismal town where I went to school and college,
00:06:02they've built a new university for a new dispensation of knowledge.
00:06:06Built it most grand and cakeily out of the noble loot derived from shrewd cash chemistry
00:06:12by good Sir Jesse Boots.
00:06:14Boots?
00:06:15As in Boots the chemist?
00:06:17The same.
00:06:18And it ends that future Nottingham lads would be cash chemically BSE.
00:06:22That Nottingham lights would rise and say,
00:06:25By Boots I am MA.
00:06:27From this I learned, though I knew it before,
00:06:29that culture has her roots in the deep dung of cash.
00:06:32And law is a last offshoot of Boots.
00:06:35You see, he was always a troublemaker.
00:06:37Some people haven't forgiven him yet.
00:06:48People will hate me, Jesse.
00:06:53And they always hate artists and writers who tell the truth.
00:06:56You can't tell the truth without drawing blood.
00:06:58And people can't stand the sight of blood.
00:07:00Especially their own.
00:07:01Well, most of all that.
00:07:03I mean, look at this valley.
00:07:04See, there's a music here, and nobody dares to sing it out loud.
00:07:08In Shakespeare, he heard the music.
00:07:11And Chaucer.
00:07:12Then it was taken away from us.
00:07:13The lords and masters built fences round it with big signs saying,
00:07:17Keep out.
00:07:18Art and literature.
00:07:19The art for the likes of you.
00:07:20Touch your forelock and move on.
00:07:22Or get yourself down the pit where you belong.
00:07:25But we know, Jesse.
00:07:26We know when we've been cheated.
00:07:28And even me father knows.
00:07:30I listen to him when he comes home drunk from the pub.
00:07:32Do you know what he does?
00:07:33He sings.
00:07:34I mean, it's ugly and dirty, his singing,
00:07:37but he's trying to make it beautiful.
00:07:39To him, it is beautiful.
00:07:41He knows, same as I know, we've been betrayed.
00:07:44Well, Burt Lawrence will reclaim the English language
00:07:47from the lords and masters.
00:07:49I shall find the music of this valley.
00:07:52I shall sing it loud to the reverberate hills,
00:07:54even in dead of night.
00:07:56You wake everybody up.
00:07:58Well, that's the only decent thing to do when people are asleep.
00:08:01Wake him up.
00:08:02Wake up, you brothers!
00:08:11So, what's your excuse, Kate?
00:08:15Excuse for what?
00:08:17For piercing the mystery of Lawrence.
00:08:20Doing an open university degree.
00:08:23Married with two kids.
00:08:25Kids growing up a little.
00:08:27Husband growing up a little.
00:08:30Time on my hands.
00:08:32Bored housewife.
00:08:33There's a lot of you about.
00:08:35I'm an archetype.
00:08:37They write articles about women like me and the Guardian.
00:08:40Nearly every day.
00:08:42So, what's your excuse?
00:08:45I don't write articles in the Guardian.
00:08:48Your excuse for chasing Lawrence.
00:08:51Unemployed graduate.
00:08:52I do a bit of moonlighting.
00:08:54You know, working behind a bar.
00:08:56Plus acting as a tourist guide.
00:08:58But the cover story is I'm doing an MA.
00:09:01That's what you tell the DHSS if they ask the questions.
00:09:05Here we are.
00:09:07Eastward.
00:09:08Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
00:09:13The birthplace.
00:09:16Plus the chance of a cheap laugh.
00:09:19Bert would have been on the mining side.
00:09:21Bert?
00:09:22Everybody in Eastward called in Bert.
00:09:2811th of September, 1885.
00:09:31Happy anniversary.
00:09:33It's a museum now.
00:09:40Of course, Bert isn't actually buried here.
00:09:42He's in New Mexico, isn't he?
00:09:44Yeah, that's a great story.
00:09:45He was originally buried in France.
00:09:47Then five years later, Frida decides she wants him in New Mexico.
00:09:51So she sends Angelo, the new husband, to Europe saying bring Lawrence back.
00:09:55Angelo has to organise for Lawrence to be dug up, cremated, forms to fill in, export licences, God knows what.
00:10:00He does it, goes back across the Atlantic, clutching the urn, eventually gets back to New Mexico.
00:10:06So, Frida meets him on the station, hugs, kisses, great excitement.
00:10:09Did they piss off home and leave the ashes in the urn on the station platform?
00:10:12Not forever.
00:10:13Oh, no.
00:10:14They went back later.
00:10:15I suppose they found him in lost property.
00:10:16I don't know.
00:10:17It's funny.
00:10:18How much does he make you giggle, innit?
00:10:20Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence?
00:10:24Arthur and Lydia.
00:10:26You're right.
00:10:27What?
00:10:28What?
00:10:29What's wrong?
00:10:30He haunts this place.
00:10:31Oh, it's all in the mind.
00:10:32Well, where else can it be?
00:10:33He's here.
00:10:34He's here.
00:10:35Oh, it's all in the mind.
00:10:36Well, where else can it be?
00:10:40He's here.
00:10:41No, no, no, no, no.
00:10:56No, no, no, no.
00:10:59VIOLIN PLAYS
00:11:29Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me,
00:11:47taking me back down the vista of years
00:11:50till I see a child sitting under the piano
00:11:52in the boom of the tingling strings
00:11:56and pressing the small, poised feet of a mother
00:11:59who smiles as she sings.
00:12:02It's a sweet song of holiday.
00:12:05Hey, come and sing.
00:12:06Come on.
00:12:09Joy's of home, sweet and resounding.
00:12:15Home, sweet home, with every pleasure.
00:12:21Home with every blessing crowned.
00:12:26In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
00:12:29betrays me back
00:12:31till the heart of me weeps to belong
00:12:33to the old Sunday evenings at home
00:12:36with winter outside
00:12:38and hymns in the cosy parlour
00:12:40the tinkling piano our guide.
00:12:43So now it is vain for the singer
00:12:46to burst into clamour
00:12:47with the great black piano appassionato.
00:12:54The glamour of childish days is upon me
00:12:59my manhood is cast down
00:13:02in the flood of remembrance.
00:13:05I weep like a child for the past.
00:13:09Quit my weary muse, your labours
00:13:14Quit your books and learning
00:13:19Well, I should have bloody row, Lydia.
00:13:22Children should have music.
00:13:24Music?
00:13:25Don't pay no bills, no fill bellies.
00:13:29But, Dad, I've heard this singing
00:13:31when they comes home late.
00:13:33Aye, and we'll hear thee sing
00:13:35and all if they don't button their lip.
00:13:37Don't you dare hit the child.
00:13:41I shall hit whoever I like.
00:13:45You'd be better employed washing yourself.
00:13:49Splash some cold water on yourself
00:13:50and sober up a bit.
00:13:51Wash and wash me, son,
00:13:52when it suits me and not before.
00:13:57It's my muck.
00:14:00It's me getting mucky feeds
00:14:02and clothes a lot of thee.
00:14:05I'm only a dirty collier,
00:14:07I know that.
00:14:08But you try eating
00:14:10that stuff.
00:14:16You're an animal.
00:14:19All of us bloody animals, Lydia.
00:14:21It's just that some of us
00:14:23are big enough to own up.
00:14:26It's better than pretending
00:14:28to be a bloody lady.
00:14:32There'll never be a bloody lady
00:14:34married to me!
00:14:39Now,
00:14:40I'll get washed.
00:14:41Shall I help this?
00:14:52Stop saying
00:14:53thee and thou!
00:14:55My dad says...
00:14:57Don't listen to your father!
00:15:02Listen to me.
00:15:04But I saw thee and thou in the Bible.
00:15:07See, it's all about words, Jessie.
00:15:10It's just finding the words
00:15:12to keep the demon happy.
00:15:13Well, there are thousands of words
00:15:14in English language.
00:15:15Yeah, well, that's why
00:15:15it's a difficult language.
00:15:16See, there are too many words.
00:15:18I mean, suppose you want to say no.
00:15:19I mean, my father knows
00:15:20a hundred ways of saying no
00:15:21and he's forgotten
00:15:22whatever education he ever had.
00:15:23He knows 28 ways of saying no,
00:15:25just using the back of his hand,
00:15:26no talking at all.
00:15:28What about your mother?
00:15:29Well, she can say no
00:15:30a hundred different ways
00:15:31just by looking at you.
00:15:33Mind you,
00:15:33all women are like that.
00:15:35All women?
00:15:37Yes, Jessie, all women.
00:15:42And that's where Jessie lived.
00:15:45Jessie who was...
00:15:45Jessie who was Miriam
00:15:46in Sons and Lovers.
00:15:47Oh!
00:15:48I've read the book.
00:15:53It's deserted.
00:15:55Oh, aye.
00:15:56The farm belongs
00:15:57to the Lord of the Manor.
00:15:58Lawrence wrote things
00:15:59that made the Lord
00:16:00of the Manor angry.
00:16:01That is the Lord
00:16:02of the Manor's revenge.
00:16:05Look.
00:16:20It's like you.
00:16:21Don't be silly.
00:16:22I can't fly.
00:16:24Offering.
00:16:25Looking for the right word.
00:16:27Or the right woman.
00:16:28Oh, no.
00:16:32Just imagine.
00:16:37Another year
00:16:38and I shall be
00:16:38a fully certified school teacher.
00:16:41Certified?
00:16:42I always find
00:16:43the right word.
00:16:44look at the right word.
00:17:08.
00:17:11Right. Tempest.
00:17:34Act 1, scene 2. Miranda, Prospero.
00:17:41If, by my art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar,
00:17:52when will the bell ring and end this weariness?
00:18:00How long have they tugged the leash and strained apart my pack of unruly hounds?
00:18:07I cannot start them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt.
00:18:13I can haul them and urge them no more.
00:18:16Oi! Get off!
00:18:19That's enough.
00:18:21A brave vessel.
00:18:23No more can I endure to bear the brunt of the books that lie out on the desks.
00:18:28A full three score of several insults of blotted pages
00:18:32and scrawl of slovenly work that they have offered me.
00:18:41I am sick and tired more than any thrall upon the woodstacks working weirdly.
00:18:47And shall I take the last dear fuel and heap it on my soul
00:18:53till I rouse my will like a fire to consume their dross of indifference
00:18:58and burn the scrawl of their insults in punishment?
00:19:03I will not.
00:19:03I will not waste myself to embers for them
00:19:08Not all for them shall the fires of my life be hot
00:19:12For myself a heap of ashes of weariness
00:19:15Till sleep shall have raked the embers clear
00:19:19I will keep some of my strength for myself
00:19:22For if I should sell it all for them
00:19:25I should hate them
00:19:27I will sit
00:19:29and wait
00:19:31for the bell
00:19:33Are you trying to drop us a gentle hint
00:19:41that you're unhappy teaching?
00:19:43I love teaching.
00:19:44Schools and classrooms, that's what I hate.
00:19:46And inspectors and other teachers.
00:19:49Yeah, I hate most of them too.
00:19:51But you mustn't give up teaching, Bert.
00:19:53I thought you believed in free will
00:19:55and independence of thought, comrade Hopkin
00:19:58from each according to his capabilities.
00:20:00Every child goes to school now
00:20:02but we must have working class lads to teach them
00:20:04otherwise we'll just perpetuate the values of the bourgeoisie.
00:20:08Wrong, Mr. Hopkin.
00:20:10Me? Wrong? I'm never wrong.
00:20:12I'm like Bert here. He's never wrong.
00:20:14Correct. I mean, even when we disagree, we're never wrong.
00:20:17You're wrong about the kind of teachers we need in our schools
00:20:20not working class lads
00:20:22working class lads and lasses.
00:20:24Good heavens, woman, you'll be wanting the vote next.
00:20:27Well, as long as you like the poem.
00:20:29He said you didn't care.
00:20:31He said you didn't want us to be critics.
00:20:33But he wants to be loved, like all of us.
00:20:35Yeah. Yeah, we'll enjoy that.
00:20:38Why don't you have a vote on it?
00:20:40Fine, let's have a vote on it.
00:20:41He loves having votes.
00:20:43Does the meeting like Bert's poem show of hands?
00:20:51Unanimously.
00:20:54And we all love you.
00:20:57Well, I'd rather you didn't have a vote on that.
00:21:01And we all think that you should write some more poems.
00:21:04And stories.
00:21:05And novels.
00:21:06Operas?
00:21:08Why not?
00:21:09We'll all help.
00:21:11Whatever the demon desires.
00:21:12From the chair, it seems to me
00:21:16that all of Eastwood's radical free thinkers
00:21:18are ready and willing to help you
00:21:20in your literary career, Bert.
00:21:21In which case, I should like to move our meeting
00:21:23on to the next business.
00:21:26The imminent overthrow of capitalism.
00:21:29Bear, will you be able to finish a poem now?
00:21:57Yes.
00:22:02Shouldn't you say thank you?
00:22:05When I finish the poem...
00:22:07Thank you, Alice.
00:22:12Now you can pour the tea.
00:22:18If you say that you're the woman, I shall pour the tea over your head.
00:22:23I shall pour the tea.
00:22:25I shall pour the tea.
00:22:56Well, I'll take you for the 20th century.
00:22:57At least I'm not living in the 19th.
00:23:02There.
00:23:06Which century is your husband in?
00:23:09I'm hoping he'll move out of the Middle Ages in the next few months.
00:23:13Is it just him you hate?
00:23:16Or do you hate all men?
00:23:19I hated my father from birth.
00:23:21No, I hated him before I was born.
00:23:24If we could all be excused parents, life'd be a great deal easier.
00:23:29Since before you were born?
00:23:31It's extremely sensitive of you.
00:23:33By the time I was conceived,
00:23:35my mother was no longer in a fit state to have children.
00:23:38By the same token, she was not in a fit state
00:23:43to resist my father's sexual advances.
00:23:47I'm the product of drink, rape, lust, what you will.
00:23:53But not love.
00:23:58If you hate your father,
00:24:00it is difficult to love any other man.
00:24:05But I do love you.
00:24:09Truly.
00:24:13You must be used to declarations of love by now.
00:24:17Jessie loves you, doesn't she?
00:24:19Well, she says so.
00:24:21And your teacher friend in Croydon.
00:24:23What, Helen or Agnes?
00:24:25There were two.
00:24:27We could form a society.
00:24:29Ask Willie Hopkins to draw up a constitution.
00:24:31I saw Sarah Bernhardt once at the Theatre Royal in La Damo Camellia.
00:24:41She was terrifying.
00:24:43All her demons pouring out for everyone to see.
00:24:47Primeval.
00:24:49Magnificent.
00:24:49She was like a wild animal.
00:24:54I could marry a woman like that.
00:24:57I'm sure she'd drive me mad.
00:25:01Am I not primeval and magnificent?
00:25:04Yes, you are strong and magnificent, yes, in your own way.
00:25:11And unchangeable.
00:25:13You go on your own chosen path at all times.
00:25:17There's no other path.
00:25:19There's my path.
00:25:20I have no intention of changing.
00:25:29Not even for you, Bert.
00:25:32I won't be swallowed whole by any man.
00:25:36I know what will happen to you, Alice.
00:25:39You'll perform great service for the community.
00:25:43You'll give shelter to the sick and needy.
00:25:45You'll build schools and hospitals.
00:25:47Perhaps you'll build a new society based on love.
00:25:56And may God have mercy on your husband.
00:26:17Thank you for the conducted tour.
00:26:43It's a comprehensive service.
00:26:44Does it include taking me back to my hotel?
00:26:47Not only that, it includes an invitation back to my place.
00:26:50Oh, hum.
00:26:51For a cup of tea.
00:26:53And some in-depth conversation about the many things we have seen.
00:26:57As long as it's understood, I don't want to see your etchings.
00:27:00That reminds me.
00:27:02I don't do etchings, but I have been trying to finish this poem.
00:27:07Tea.
00:27:09Tea.
00:27:10I can't stand Willie Whetlake.
00:27:16Can't stand him at any price.
00:27:18He's resigned.
00:27:19And when you hit him, he lets you hit him twice.
00:27:21I cannot tell a lie.
00:27:47The etchings are very good.
00:27:49Oh, thank you.
00:27:50I didn't make them.
00:27:52But I bought most of them.
00:27:53Apart from the ones I stole.
00:27:56Do you have many visitors to see them?
00:27:58Mm.
00:27:59Oh, no.
00:28:00Maybe two or three on an average night.
00:28:06You must admit, I make really awful tea.
00:28:08That's true.
00:28:09Very nasty.
00:28:10It's amazingly cheap.
00:28:12I bet.
00:28:13One of my many admirers left these on a previous visit.
00:28:16Do you smoke?
00:28:20Sorrow.
00:28:22No.
00:28:23I said, do you smoke?
00:28:24Sorrow.
00:28:26That doesn't actually make sense.
00:28:29It's a poem.
00:28:31About smoking?
00:28:33Our man wrote about everything.
00:28:34Here we are.
00:28:51Why does the thin gray strand floating up from the forgotten
00:28:55cigarette between my fingers, why does it trouble me?
00:28:59Why did it trouble him?
00:29:00Why?
00:29:01Why?
00:29:01Why?
00:29:02Let's go.
00:29:32Ah, you will understand.
00:29:44When I carried my mother downstairs,
00:29:46a few times only at the beginning of her soft foot malady,
00:29:50I should find for a reprimand to my gaiety
00:29:53a few long grey hairs on the breast of my coat.
00:29:57And one by one, I watched them float up the dark chimney.
00:30:04I watched them float up the dark chimney.
00:30:11I watched them float up the dark chimney.
00:30:14I watched them float up the dark chimney.
00:30:18It was a dark chimney.
00:30:19I saw her very little view on the dark chimney.
00:30:22I watched my mother.
00:30:24Have they come in home or what?
00:30:43So at this end.
00:30:45I can stay here all night if it takes the fancy.
00:30:50Not me.
00:30:52So bloody cold.
00:30:55I loved her.
00:31:00Oh, well.
00:31:02Sons are supposed to love their mothers.
00:31:05That's how it operates.
00:31:09Husbands is different.
00:31:11I don't know.
00:31:11Go on.
00:31:21You know.
00:31:23Oh, my God.
00:31:53You must have loved her once.
00:32:17Oh, my dear, say, once upon a time.
00:32:25As they say in stories, once upon a time.
00:32:32But that doesn't mean they'll lose happily ever after.
00:32:41Maybe it's different in the stories they write.
00:32:46No.
00:32:49It isn't different in the stories I write.
00:32:53Well, then, I must have been taking note.
00:33:16Is this thine?
00:33:21My first novel.
00:33:23Did she read it?
00:33:28Before she passed on?
00:33:31You was too ill.
00:33:36What did they pay thee for making this?
00:33:3950 guineas.
00:33:4150 guineas.
00:33:46And they've never done a proper day's work in their life.
00:33:53Madam should have liked it.
00:33:55Oh, she's dead.
00:33:59I'll not allow me we talk of death.
00:34:02I live with it day by day in the pit.
00:34:06Death.
00:34:08I spit on it.
00:34:15And now I'm off to the pub.
00:34:21You can't.
00:34:23I do as I please.
00:34:24That's the same.
00:34:26Unanimous vault of the Eastwood Soviet.
00:34:28The White Peacock is the greatest novel written in the history of the English language.
00:34:31No, it isn't.
00:34:32We know it isn't, but we want to encourage you.
00:34:33Let's go.
00:34:34Let's go.
00:34:35Let's go.
00:34:36Let's go.
00:34:37Let's go.
00:34:38Let's go.
00:34:39Let's go.
00:34:40Let's go.
00:34:41Let's go.
00:34:42Let's go.
00:34:43Let's go.
00:34:44Let's go.
00:34:45Let's go.
00:34:46Let's go.
00:34:47Let's go.
00:34:48Let's go.
00:34:49Let's go.
00:34:50I want to encourage you.
00:34:51You must write another one.
00:34:53And soon.
00:34:54I'm writing it all the time.
00:34:56Shed some blood.
00:34:58Show the petty bourgeoisie what the working class is thinking.
00:35:01Not thinking.
00:35:02Feeling.
00:35:03You shouldn't preach at people.
00:35:05It upsets them.
00:35:07Do people get upset when you preach at them?
00:35:09Of course they do.
00:35:11They revile me and persecute me and throw all manner of old fruit and vegetables against me.
00:35:18Falsely.
00:35:19Some of them are very good shots.
00:35:22I think you're right, comrade Hopkin.
00:35:25I know.
00:35:26I'm always right.
00:35:28A preacher.
00:35:29That's what I am.
00:35:30And seeing a multitude he went up into a mountain.
00:35:34We lack a multitude, Bert.
00:35:36Pretend you're a multitude.
00:35:38Delighted.
00:35:39Ye have heard that it hath been said, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
00:35:45But I say unto you, we are living in the land of the meek.
00:35:48And the meek are buried deep in the bowels of the earth, digging the coal and feeding the worms.
00:35:53Amen.
00:35:58My mother which art in heaven is buried beneath the earth.
00:36:01My father which art in hell is buried beneath the earth.
00:36:05And verily they have inherited the earth.
00:36:08Come on, Bert.
00:36:09Here you are, lad.
00:36:14It's hard work.
00:36:15I'm being a priest.
00:36:16That's a sick.
00:36:17That's good.
00:36:18That's good.
00:36:19That's good.
00:36:20I'm being a king, sir.
00:36:21Come on, Bert.
00:36:22Here you are, lad.
00:36:23It's hard work.
00:36:25I'm being a priest.
00:36:26There you are, lad.
00:36:27It's hard work.
00:36:29I'm being a priest.
00:36:40There you see.
00:36:42That's it.
00:36:43Dirt.
00:36:56How are you?
00:36:58Well, considering I nearly died of pneumonia,
00:37:01I'm very well considering.
00:37:03Good.
00:37:05No flowers, no grapes, no chocolates.
00:37:09I brought you flowers last time, and you said I'm not dying.
00:37:12Did I say that? You did.
00:37:14I can't remember. I must be dying at the time.
00:37:18Are you really better?
00:37:20Improving, yeah.
00:37:22The bronchi will still scratch a bit.
00:37:25But yes, I shall soon be better.
00:37:28It's all education's fault.
00:37:30Oh, you blame everything in education.
00:37:33No, I don't.
00:37:34Sometimes I blame my parents.
00:37:36Sometimes I blame God.
00:37:38Sometimes I blame women.
00:37:40It's women mostly.
00:37:41That's your fault.
00:37:43How many engaged at the moment?
00:37:46Including you.
00:37:47Are we engaged?
00:37:49Not really.
00:37:51But you are my best friend.
00:37:53Best woman friend.
00:37:55You know that the manuscript?
00:38:00Yes.
00:38:01Well, you read it.
00:38:03Yes.
00:38:04All these words.
00:38:10No man can teach all day and make words all night.
00:38:16I did a private income.
00:38:18Or a soft job at a university.
00:38:20Did you like it?
00:38:23Not entirely.
00:38:25I've written it three times.
00:38:28Because I love you, I have to tell you the truth.
00:38:30You love me, but you don't love him.
00:38:32They're all the same person.
00:38:33No.
00:38:34The words are drawn from a deep well.
00:38:38Full of blood.
00:38:39From the heart.
00:38:41No, not from the heart.
00:38:43Lower down than that.
00:38:45That frightens you, doesn't it?
00:38:48There are things about you that frighten me, yes.
00:38:53Love can't exist with fear.
00:38:57You have to move through it.
00:39:00The fear and the pain.
00:39:04Before you can find love.
00:39:09And I think you're up to that task, Jessie.
00:39:15Right.
00:39:18Tell me what's wrong with the book.
00:39:19We'll start at page one.
00:39:31Page one.
00:39:48Peter, my dear, I know that music hath charmed to soothe the savage breast.
00:40:03But do you have to soothe all day and all night?
00:40:09Yes.
00:40:10There's something I have to tell you.
00:40:26The end.
00:40:43So, what is your important news?
00:40:45We shall have a visitor for lunch on Sunday.
00:40:48A boring professor.
00:40:50One of my ex-students.
00:40:52Ah, a boring graduate? Undergraduate?
00:40:56He's a writer. Some sort of young genius.
00:41:00Oh, my God. An intellectual for this did I run away from Vienna.
00:41:08Come on, my troops.
00:41:10Into battle now.
00:41:13Left, right, left, right, left, right.
00:41:16Elsa, more smart.
00:41:18Very good.
00:41:23And it's about turn.
00:41:27Barbara.
00:41:43Hmm.
00:41:58Mm.
00:42:09So the doctors have advised against a return to teaching.
00:42:14Yes.
00:42:15The chalk dust makes me cough.
00:42:17And I think it corromes my soul.
00:42:19But that's not a medical opinion.
00:42:22So what have you in mind?
00:42:24Some university teaching?
00:42:26Yes, a German university.
00:42:27Just as a lector, I wouldn't expect to be a fully certified academic immediately.
00:42:32So how are your languages these days?
00:42:36I could live in Germany or France for that matter and not go hungry.
00:42:39Do not go to France, go to Germany.
00:42:42I would like to speak German.
00:42:45You have a good taste.
00:42:48Very good.
00:42:50You speak German.
00:42:54So are you going to teach English in Germany?
00:42:57Yes.
00:42:58And how is your English?
00:43:01This young gentleman speaks at least two forms of English.
00:43:06Really?
00:43:07Head speech and heart speech.
00:43:10You must explain.
00:43:11Well, I can speak like this, indistinguishable from a lower middle class schoolteacher with chalk dust on the brain, the way my mother taught me, that's head speech.
00:43:20Or I can talk the way my father talks, like a collier, heart speech, quarried from the Nottingham Earth.
00:43:26I would like to hear this heart speech.
00:43:29And recite one of your dilute poems.
00:43:32Isn't that a breach of good manners, to recite poetry when you've been invited to Sunday lunch?
00:43:37No, we are asking you to recite.
00:43:39Well, you might find it boring.
00:43:41English Sundays are boring anyway.
00:43:44So, nothing is lost.
00:43:46So be it, if I can remember it.
00:43:50It's called violets.
00:43:52Violets?
00:43:54The flower?
00:43:57Yes, my dear.
00:43:59I know about English flowers.
00:44:02Violets.
00:44:07Sister, they knows while we was on the planks aside of the grave, while the coffin were lying yet on the yellow clay, and the white flowers top of it tried to keep off in a bit of the wet.
00:44:22And Parson making haste, and all the black hoodling close together because of the rain, did happen to notice a bit of a lass, away back by Edston, sobbing and sobbing again.
00:44:35How should I be looking round?
00:44:38And me stood on the plank beside the open ground where our ted would soon be sank.
00:44:43Yeah, and him that young snap sudden out of all his wickedness, among pals worse, nor any name as you could call.
00:44:49Well, let be that.
00:44:50There's some of the baddies we like better than all your good, and he was one.
00:44:53And because I liked him best, he had better than thee.
00:44:55I cannot bite to think where he has gone.
00:44:58I know that I liked him better than me.
00:45:01But let me tell thee about this lass.
00:45:05When you had gone, I stopped behind on Paddy the Drippin' Wet, and watched what I had on.
00:45:12You should have seen her sliv up when we'd gone.
00:45:15I should have seen her kneel down and looking at the sloppy wet grave.
00:45:20And her little neck shone that white, and her shook that much.
00:45:24I'd like to begin scraping my scent as well.
00:45:27Her undid her black jacket at the bottom, and took from out of it over a double handful of violets.
00:45:35All in a pack.
00:45:37Raveled blue and white.
00:45:39Warm.
00:45:40For a bit of the smell come wefting to me.
00:45:43They put her face right into them.
00:45:46And scraped it out again.
00:45:49And after a while, they dropped them down that place.
00:45:53And I come away.
00:45:56Because of the teeming rain.
00:46:03That's the end, aunt.
00:46:05You have some fascinating words in the poem, Lawrence.
00:46:11Um...
00:46:14Scrating.
00:46:15Scrating?
00:46:16Um...
00:46:17Weeping, crying, presumably.
00:46:19Sobbing from the soles of your feet.
00:46:24And raveled?
00:46:25While it's all in a pack.
00:46:27Raveled blue and white.
00:46:29You know Shakespeare used raveled?
00:46:31Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, Macbeth.
00:46:36I probably stole it from Shakespeare without realising.
00:46:39But all writers are thieves.
00:46:40I'm sure you know that.
00:46:42Did you understand any of those strange words, Mrs. Wheatley?
00:46:46No.
00:46:47I understood all of the words.
00:46:50But I understood all of the poem.
00:46:54Good!
00:46:55Come on!
00:46:56Push!
00:46:57Push!
00:46:58Two little girls in blue.
00:47:01And...
00:47:03Say, oh!
00:47:04They were sisters.
00:47:07We were brothers and learned to love us too.
00:47:10Woohoo!
00:47:11Whoo!
00:47:12Two little putts on blue.
00:47:22And they're mummy's horse.
00:47:24His name was Nicky.
00:47:25Thank you, Mrs. Wheatley.
00:47:36Frida.
00:47:43I'm sorry.
00:47:44Forgive me.
00:47:46It isn't the smoke.
00:47:47Everything makes me cough.
00:47:50Fresh air.
00:47:51Gardens.
00:47:52Sundays.
00:47:52Ernest prefers me not to smoke at the house.
00:47:57Usually I ignore him, but sometimes I make a constructive gesture by coming into the garden to smoke when the weather is fine, which is almost never.
00:48:09Your children are beautiful.
00:48:13All children are beautiful, but especially mine, yes, I agree with you.
00:48:17And the garden.
00:48:18English gardens, they are fine to smoke a cigarette in, but they are designed to keep out hedges and walls.
00:48:25An Englishman's castle.
00:48:26I do not like English homes, their gardens, or their castles.
00:48:35But I very much liked your poem.
00:48:37Did you really understand it?
00:48:41Oh, yes.
00:48:42Did you really understand it?
00:48:44Oh, yes, of course.
00:48:46It was about pain and about flowers.
00:48:49The smell of violets and the smell of death.
00:48:52Yes?
00:48:53Yes.
00:48:59Ernest understands all of the words, but...
00:49:01But you don't love him.
00:49:02Is that a proper thing for an English gentleman to say to his hostess after Sunday lunch?
00:49:10I'm not an English gentleman, Mrs. Wheatley.
00:49:11I'm a collier's son.
00:49:14Your blood doesn't quicken when he walks into the room.
00:49:18Is there any chance of persuading my children to make a little less noise, my dear?
00:49:22Right, I am trying to work.
00:49:31There we are.
00:49:36The start of the greatest love story ever told.
00:49:39Lawrence and Frida.
00:49:40They're right up there with Romeo and Juliet.
00:49:42Dido and Anais.
00:49:44Daphne and Chloe.
00:49:46Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
00:49:48David and Goliath.
00:49:48Oh, they don't make them like this anymore.
00:49:51Dear God, it's at the time.
00:49:59I'm having for a taxi.
00:50:01I have a feeling it's one of those hotels where they lock the door at 10.30.
00:50:04I'll give you a lift.
00:50:06Are you sure?
00:50:08I am your officially appointed guide and comforter.
00:50:12Guide, yes.
00:50:14Comforting, I'll see to myself.
00:50:15I'll get you a coat.
00:50:32May I ask you a personal question?
00:50:35As long as I have the choice about answering.
00:50:38The question is, do you really love your husband?
00:50:43Does your blood quicken when he walks into the room?
00:50:46The answer to both those questions is yes.
00:50:50Well, it was worth a try, wasn't it?
00:50:52No, it was not.
00:50:55Honestly, it has been known to work in my favour.
00:50:59Has that happened before?
00:51:01No.
00:51:02Pity.
00:51:02Come on, I'll run you home.
00:51:25I'll write to some people in Germany.
00:51:28You shall have the very best references.
00:51:30We must look after your health and your talent.
00:51:35I'm grateful for your kindness, Professor Weakley.
00:51:38Good.
00:51:41Well, my wife will see you out.
00:51:44Good night, Lawrence.
00:51:45Good night.
00:51:46Good night.
00:52:00May I visit you again?
00:52:07I hope that you will.
00:52:09I'll write to you, if I may.
00:52:13Please.
00:52:14My husband is going away for a few days to collect some more words.
00:52:25I see.
00:52:28So write to me, Lawrence.
00:52:30The dawn was apple green.
00:52:49The sky was green wine held up in the sun.
00:52:53The moon was a golden petal between.
00:52:55She opened her eyes and green they shone.
00:53:00Clear like flowers undone for the first time.
00:53:04Now for the first time seen.
00:53:07Cloud sûrage in the sky.
00:53:14It was a beautiful gate.
00:53:17The moon was green.
00:53:17It was a beautiful wednesday came.
00:53:20The moon was grassy dancing.
00:53:22It was a beautiful thing.
00:53:23It was running again.
00:53:24The moon was half a twenty-day.
00:53:25It was a beautiful kind.
00:53:26The moon was a beautiful night.
00:53:27It was beautiful.
00:53:28It's such a beautiful kind.
00:53:30It was an incredible day!
00:53:31To be friends, growing art is too busy.
00:53:32Don't hit me.
00:53:49I never hit people in libraries.
00:53:52I thought you might be here.
00:53:54I just came to say sorry.
00:53:56Very well. Say it.
00:53:59Sorry.
00:54:01Okay.
00:54:02Which proves it can't be true love,
00:54:03because true love means never having to say your sorry.
00:54:05Shut up.
00:54:10What happens now?
00:54:11I get on with my life, you get on with yours.
00:54:14But you're going away.
00:54:16Yes, this afternoon.
00:54:18It's rotten.
00:54:19Look, I'm only a part-time student, remember?
00:54:22Husband and two children to support.
00:54:26Look, my train leaves at three o'clock.
00:54:28I've got a lot of work to do.
00:54:29Please go away.
00:54:31I'll take you out to lunch and run you to the station after.
00:54:40One o'clock here.
00:54:42Okay.
00:54:42Okay.
00:55:12Thank you for your letter.
00:55:23Well, you asked me to write to you, so I did.
00:55:25Oh, yes.
00:55:26Very much so.
00:55:30I quote.
00:55:33You are the most wonderful woman in all England.
00:55:37I thought you'd like that.
00:55:38Do you write like that to all the women in your life?
00:55:40No, only you.
00:55:41Only when I know it to be true.
00:55:42I'm noted for my honesty and perception.
00:55:44Ask your husband.
00:55:45Ask your husband.
00:55:45He thinks I'm a young genius.
00:55:47And what do you think?
00:55:49I think I'm a good writer.
00:55:51If I live long enough, I might turn into a very good one or even a great one.
00:55:54It's hard work.
00:55:55You need time to practice.
00:55:57I've never known a real live aristocrat before.
00:56:00Oh.
00:56:02The aristocracy is overrated.
00:56:04Well, not by me.
00:56:05Do you know what the comedian said at the music hall in Nottingham?
00:56:08No, you tell me.
00:56:09He said, a rich man's exactly the same as a poor man, except he's got a lot of money.
00:56:15Have you got a lot of money, Mrs. Wheatley?
00:56:17Oh, you want to know everything.
00:56:19Of course.
00:56:20You're the most wonderful woman in the world.
00:56:21Therefore, I need to know everything about you.
00:56:23What it's like to be a German aristocrat.
00:56:25What it's like to be married to Professor Wheatley.
00:56:26What it's like to have three children.
00:56:29What it's like to be a very unhappy woman.
00:56:34So that you can write about it?
00:56:39Well, I write about everything that happens to me.
00:56:41What else can I do with it?
00:56:45Laurence.
00:56:46No, no, no, children, wait.
00:56:50What do you want, children?
00:56:53Go on, you ask.
00:56:56You ask then, Bobby.
00:56:58We want to know if Uncle Bert's coming out to play.
00:57:02Uncle Bert?
00:57:03Um, when we were playing on the swings, Barbara asked me who I was, and I told her I was, um, Uncle Bert.
00:57:10Is he coming?
00:57:12I'm sorry, my darlings.
00:57:14Mr. Lawrence is very busy.
00:57:16We have things to discuss.
00:57:17We're very busy planning the picnic.
00:57:20Picnic?
00:57:21Picnic.
00:57:22Picnic?
00:57:23If you'll all be very good and leave us in peace, we will organise a grand picnic for, um, sometime this week.
00:57:31Um, sometime this week?
00:57:35Yes, yes, sometime this week.
00:57:37For sometime this week.
00:57:38So, off you go.
00:57:40Let's go and the go.
00:57:43I didn't know that I wanted a picnic.
00:57:46But you do, don't you?
00:57:47Oh, yes, very much.
00:57:49But only if you're very good.
00:57:50And what do I have to do to be very good?
00:57:54Tell me about being an aristocrat.
00:57:56I mean, just imagine if my mother knew I was friends with an aristocrat.
00:57:59Go on, tell me.
00:58:00Very well.
00:58:02I was born Emma Maria Freda Johanna von Richthofen.
00:58:06Wonderful.
00:58:07How old are you?
00:58:0833.
00:58:09I'm 26, but that won't come between us.
00:58:11Laurence, you are a strange bird.
00:58:18Tell me about being married and unhappy.
00:58:21Well, I'm not unhappy.
00:58:23I don't believe that.
00:58:26No, not unhappy.
00:58:28It just seems that I've been asleep.
00:58:32Well, I shall wake you up, Mrs. Weekly.
00:58:34It was a kiss?
00:58:41Only if you're very good.
00:58:44Oh, you'll find that I am not a very good woman.
00:58:49I will find that...
00:58:52we will find...
00:58:56everything.
00:59:04If those lips could only speak
00:59:10If those eyes could only see
00:59:14If those beautiful golden tresses
00:59:18Were there in reality
00:59:21Could I only take your hand
00:59:25As you did when I took your name
00:59:29But it's only a beautiful picture
00:59:32In a beautiful golden frame
00:59:37Well, you have a fine voice.
00:59:42Oh, yes, Mrs. Weekly.
00:59:44People travel miles to avoid hearing me.
00:59:47Oh, thank you, darling.
01:00:04Did you remember to read the newspaper?
01:00:06Of course.
01:00:06I always obey orders without question.
01:00:09I don't believe that.
01:00:10Just as long as you remember the newspaper.
01:00:12So do you like to read the times on a picnic?
01:00:14Never.
01:00:15I destroy it.
01:00:16I try it.
01:00:17unfold as you remember the script.
01:00:19No, no, no, no.
01:00:19I don't know.
01:00:20Oh, yeah.
01:00:22It's good to get my ticket collection.
01:00:24I throw this in my head, yes?
01:00:26Yeah, I know.
01:00:26Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:28Ha ha.
01:00:28Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:38Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:41Ha, ha.
01:00:41Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:42Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:44Ha, ha, ha!
01:00:44Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:45Ha, ha, ha.
01:00:45It's beautiful.
01:00:50Good.
01:00:51It's only been launched.
01:00:54Barbara?
01:00:55Oh!
01:00:56It's all right.
01:00:57It's all right.
01:00:58That's it.
01:00:59Right, bring on the champagne.
01:01:02What do we call it, Barbara?
01:01:05Daddy.
01:01:06Daddy.
01:01:09As you wish.
01:01:16Ta-da!
01:01:19Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
01:01:22Yay!
01:01:25It was when I saw you making the votes with the children and playing in the stream that I
01:01:54realized.
01:01:57What did you realize?
01:02:02That I love you.
01:02:05I know.
01:02:10Prove it, Frida.
01:02:13How?
01:02:15Makes a cup of tea.
01:02:20Personal question, Kate.
01:02:23Last time you did that, I ended up thumping you.
01:02:26An innocent personal question.
01:02:28Ask it, and I'll tell you whether it's innocent.
01:02:33Was there a moment when you saw your husband doing something?
01:02:38Like sailing paper boats, and you knew you loved him?
01:02:42Yes, that's innocent.
01:02:43And dangerous.
01:02:45No, I don't think so.
01:02:48I watched him playing cricket once and kept applauding the wrong man.
01:02:53Well, they all dress him white, and I should wear glasses, really.
01:02:57But there are things he does which are endearing, like spending hours arranging his hair to hide
01:03:04the ball patch, when everyone can still see the ball patch.
01:03:07Vanity of vanities.
01:03:09You haven't really answered the question.
01:03:12There isn't an answer.
01:03:14There's never been much for sailing paper boats.
01:03:17I think we ought to go.
01:03:19Let's go.
01:03:20Let's go.
01:03:21Let's go.
01:03:22Let's go.
01:03:23Let's go.
01:03:24Let's go.
01:03:25Let's go.
01:03:26Let's go.
01:03:27Let's go.
01:03:28Let's go.
01:03:29Lawrence, would you like to stay with me tonight?
01:03:44Here?
01:03:46Yes.
01:03:47I'd like that very much.
01:03:50Good.
01:03:51But I won't.
01:03:52Why not?
01:03:53Because I know the difference between appetite and desire.
01:03:58You must explain.
01:04:00It's the difference between wanting to go to bed with a woman,
01:04:03and wanting to spend the rest of your life with her.
01:04:06You mean you want to spend the rest of your life with me?
01:04:10You say you love me.
01:04:11I say you're the most wonderful woman in the world.
01:04:14It's obvious.
01:04:15Well, it's obvious that we have to go to bed together.
01:04:18No.
01:04:19You're a Puritan.
01:04:20Is there something wrong with that?
01:04:23In Vienna...
01:04:24Vienna?
01:04:25Bloomsbury on the Danube?
01:04:27In Vienna, we believe that sexual oppression causes great unhappiness.
01:04:31I agree.
01:04:32The great thinkers of Vienna and Eastwood are in total accord on the subject.
01:04:35You'll find them behind all the hedges.
01:04:37So, we must go to bed together.
01:04:40Have you said that before?
01:04:42To other men?
01:04:44I have had other lovers, yes.
01:04:47But you don't solve unhappiness with sex.
01:04:49It's no better than getting drunk.
01:04:51But I like sex.
01:04:53I like wine.
01:04:54Yeah, and you wake up with a headache.
01:04:57You wake up with your unhappiness.
01:04:59You wake up with an empty marriage.
01:05:09Now, you make life very complicated.
01:05:11No.
01:05:12I make it very simple.
01:05:14Like a child.
01:05:16That's why people tell me to be quiet.
01:05:19Should there are young Bert, we can't get on with our lives without preaching.
01:05:23It is very simple.
01:05:26I am the right man.
01:05:29You are the right woman.
01:05:32We must spend the rest of our lives together.
01:05:37Oh, you go home, Lance.
01:05:42Go home.
01:05:44You are the call, and I am the answer.
01:05:59You are the wish, and I the fulfilment.
01:06:02You are the night, and I the day.
01:06:06What else?
01:06:08It is perfect enough.
01:06:10It is perfectly complete.
01:06:12You and I.
01:06:14What more?
01:06:21Strange.
01:06:23How we suffer in spite of this.
01:06:26I need to talk to my best friends.
01:06:35We are here.
01:06:36You look terrible, Bert.
01:06:38Are you all again?
01:06:39No.
01:06:40Have you joined the Tories?
01:06:43No.
01:06:44So it must be a woman.
01:06:46Yes.
01:06:47Yes.
01:06:48It could be worse.
01:06:51It is worse.
01:06:52I love her, she loves me, and she's married with three children.
01:06:59Frieda Weakley.
01:07:04Haven't I always warned you about the aristocracy?
01:07:07This is no time to jest and dally.
01:07:15What do you want from us, Bert?
01:07:17A half rug to cry on.
01:07:21I can tell you the facts of life.
01:07:23I think Frieda Weakley already knows the facts of life.
01:07:25Yeah, and I know about three of them.
01:07:27There are choices.
01:07:30Recite the manifesto, comrade.
01:07:34Well, you can carry on as you are at the moment.
01:07:38Secret assignations, melodramatic nonsense of that kind.
01:07:42Is that what you've been up to?
01:07:44Yes.
01:07:45Like a bad Victorian novel.
01:07:47Or you can walk away from the situation with dignity.
01:07:50A far, far better thing that you do now.
01:07:53That's quite a decent novel.
01:07:56Well, you can tell the truth.
01:07:58I love Frieda Weakley, she loves me.
01:08:01And take the consequences.
01:08:04What consequences would you anticipate?
01:08:08In Eastwood, near Nottingham in the year 1912.
01:08:12Crucifixion.
01:08:14But you wanted to be a priest.
01:08:16You said so yourself.
01:08:20We can't tell you what to do.
01:08:23But those are the choices.
01:08:30Is it a happy marriage?
01:08:32No.
01:08:33It's a sleeping marriage like most marriages.
01:08:38Well, there are exceptions.
01:08:40Well, this one isn't sleeping.
01:08:42A permanent battlefield, yes.
01:08:44Sleeping, no.
01:08:46Michelangelo, when he died, was working on a set of four sculptures.
01:08:53I've seen pictures of them.
01:08:54I think they're called The Prisoners.
01:08:57You can see the head, the arms, the legs, torso.
01:09:01But they're still embedded in great slabs of stone, waiting to be released.
01:09:06It's readers like that.
01:09:08So am I.
01:09:10It's waiting to be released.
01:09:13But if you see a completed Michelangelo, if you see his statue of David, it is complete.
01:09:22Released.
01:09:24It's beautiful.
01:09:27It's fragile.
01:09:32Naked and vulnerable.
01:09:37That's the price of freedom, Bert.
01:09:40I preach the freedom of the individual, but when the individual gets freedom it doesn't make life easier.
01:09:45Makes it much harder.
01:09:48There's no church or state telling you what to do.
01:09:51You have to decide.
01:09:54Freedom can be terrifying.
01:09:59So...
01:10:02Nobody can tell me what to do.
01:10:05We can offer you love and a hearthroat to cry on.
01:10:10Have you asked your demon?
01:10:12Oh, yes.
01:10:13And what does your demon say?
01:10:17My demon recommends crucifixion.
01:10:39Bert!
01:10:41Bert!
01:10:43Bert!
01:10:47What's wrong?
01:10:49Look, I'm just another prisoner.
01:10:52Contemplating freedom, I can glimpse a patch of blue sky through the cell window.
01:10:56It's true, isn't it? The stories were here.
01:10:59Of course you should know that. All the stories of D.H. Lawrence are true.
01:11:02That's why people hate the fellow.
01:11:04What's going to happen?
01:11:05The next day, the great question, what happens next?
01:11:06I mean, that's why we keep turning the pages, isn't it?
01:11:08To find out what happens next.
01:11:10I'll let you into a secret, Jessie.
01:11:11Even the author doesn't know.
01:11:13Well, whatever happens, I wish you...
01:11:15What do you wish me, Jessie?
01:11:17Happiness?
01:11:18Freedom?
01:11:20Both.
01:11:21Why not both?
01:11:26Because that would be greedy.
01:11:27Goodbye, Jessie.
01:11:32Goodbye, Jessie.
01:11:33Goodbye, Jessie.
01:12:05Isn't that a music hall song?
01:12:15Yes.
01:12:16Hmm.
01:12:19It's really quite, uh, pretty.
01:12:26We must all learn new music.
01:12:29It helps to keep our minds fresh.
01:12:31Absolutely.
01:12:32You collect words and I collect pretty tunes.
01:12:41Ernest, I'm going where this weekend?
01:12:47Where?
01:12:49To Kent.
01:12:50The Garnets have invited me for the weekend.
01:12:53Do you mind?
01:12:54I think it's an excellent idea.
01:12:59Oh, you'd be pleased to be rid of me?
01:13:02On the contrary, but you've been looking a little pale recently.
01:13:05And some fresh air will be good for you.
01:13:08Yes, I hope so.
01:13:15And good for me, too.
01:13:19I will be going away and it will be good for you.
01:13:23Do you want to break my heart, Ernest?
01:13:25No, but I have a great deal of work to catch up with.
01:13:31And a weekend of silence and tranquillity will help.
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01:14:07In a week's time, I'm going to visit my family in Germany.
01:14:33Will you come with me?
01:14:37Yes, I would like that.
01:14:40Good.
01:14:42Will I stay in a Schloss and meet a real aristocratic family?
01:14:46Oh, no.
01:14:46I think it would be more sensible for you to stay in a hotel.
01:14:50There are some very good hotels there.
01:14:52Frida, whatever happens, wherever we go, whatever we do,
01:14:55we will never hide under a stone.
01:14:57We will tell your family, we'll tell my family.
01:15:00And my husband?
01:15:03We'll tell him first.
01:15:06I'm taking his wife away from him.
01:15:09He's entitled to hear the truth before anybody else.
01:15:13It will destroy him.
01:15:15I think he's a strong man.
01:15:16He'll survive.
01:15:18And if he's a weak man, then that's his lookout.
01:15:21I've got no time for willy wet legs.
01:15:22But he'll be revenged.
01:15:29How?
01:15:29In what way?
01:15:32He'll want to kill you, me, and himself in that order.
01:15:35But he's a rational man, and he won't do that.
01:15:38He'll take his revenge by way of the children.
01:15:42The children?
01:15:43Yes.
01:15:44What about the children?
01:15:45You probably won't see them again.
01:15:50Never?
01:15:51Maybe when they've grown up with minds of their own.
01:15:54If they're allowed to grow up with minds of their own,
01:15:56then they'll see you if they want to.
01:15:57It'll be their choice.
01:15:59But while they're still children,
01:16:02still growing up,
01:16:05I doubt whether you'll see them.
01:16:07Oh, Lawrence.
01:16:15We'll be attacking your husband's dignity and pride.
01:16:24His status within the community.
01:16:25Ernest is an observer of rules.
01:16:28He'll observe the rules
01:16:29and hire the best legal advice,
01:16:30and the legal advisor will observe the rules,
01:16:33and the rules will say
01:16:34that you're totally unfit
01:16:35to be the mother of your children.
01:16:38It's normal and natural in the world we live in.
01:16:41Now, Ernest won't behave like that.
01:16:42He's not a cool man.
01:16:44He's a kind man.
01:16:47But the rules won't give him any choice in the matter.
01:16:50The rules will tell him,
01:16:51and his best friends will tell him
01:16:52that you are a wicked woman
01:16:53and should therefore be condemned.
01:16:56They can't stone you to death,
01:16:57so they'll take your children away.
01:17:00Am I a bad mother?
01:17:03Parents should tell the truth.
01:17:08How else can children learn?
01:17:09You and I.
01:17:15We are the truth.
01:17:18The way and the light.
01:17:22There's a little patch of blue sky.
01:17:25We can choose to reach for it,
01:17:27or we can turn our backs,
01:17:29pretend it isn't there,
01:17:30and go back to where we were before.
01:17:31And if we go back?
01:17:34We shall never walk in the light.
01:17:37We shall never know.
01:17:42You have to decide.
01:17:46I've already told you what I want.
01:17:49Oh, tell me the truth, Lawrence.
01:17:51I want that you
01:17:53should come live with me
01:17:56and be my wife.
01:18:04I know.
01:18:06Oh, yes, freedom.
01:18:09And so do I.
01:18:10Can I have a guardian, please, love?
01:18:26Ta.
01:18:31Thank you for looking after me.
01:18:32My pleasure.
01:18:33Most of the time, anyway.
01:18:34I didn't enjoy being thumped.
01:18:36Mind you, some people go in
01:18:38for that sort of thing.
01:18:39Did you think I was like that?
01:18:40Don't you know why I hit you?
01:18:42Because I made a certain suggestion
01:18:43and you didn't want to know.
01:18:44You know nothing.
01:18:46Oh, thank you very much.
01:18:47I give you the conducted tour,
01:18:48allow you to buy me lunch,
01:18:49teach you all about Lawrence,
01:18:50and this is my reward.
01:18:51You know sod all about Lawrence.
01:18:59So, tell me where I'm wrong.
01:19:01Well, you think the gospel
01:19:02according to Lawrence
01:19:03is a license for a casual screw
01:19:06when the child comes along.
01:19:07Just because some idiots
01:19:08in high places
01:19:09put Lady Chatterley on trial.
01:19:11Lawrence isn't about that.
01:19:13So, tell me what he's about
01:19:14in case I ever write the thesis.
01:19:16Well, for a start,
01:19:17Lawrence does not equal sex.
01:19:20Lawrence equals love,
01:19:22equals pain,
01:19:23equals tenderness,
01:19:25equals a search for truth
01:19:26and the shedding of blood.
01:19:28You're a nice boy,
01:19:29but you're not up to that sort of thing.
01:19:33Sorry.
01:19:33He was a prophet.
01:19:48All things to all men.
01:19:49It's like the authorised version.
01:19:50It means what you want it to mean.
01:19:51That's all bollocks
01:19:53and you know it.
01:19:56Yes.
01:19:56And the other reason
01:20:02why I hit you?
01:20:04There were two reasons.
01:20:06Was it the aftershave?
01:20:09You said,
01:20:09do you really love your husband?
01:20:12Does your blood quicken
01:20:13when he walks into the room?
01:20:14And you said yes
01:20:15to both questions?
01:20:17The answer to both questions
01:20:18is no.
01:20:21Ah.
01:20:23That's a hard thing to admit.
01:20:25But if it's the truth,
01:20:26you should be grateful to me
01:20:27for asking the questions.
01:20:30You didn't ask the questions.
01:20:32He did.
01:20:44You really are
01:20:46a bloody nuisance, Bert.
01:20:48Why don't you leave us alone?
01:21:10Lawrence,
01:21:10I will take you to Italy
01:21:11and introduce you to Michelangelo.
01:21:13Thank you, Frieda.
01:21:14I think we'll get on famously.
01:21:20Also,
01:21:21I will live as you
01:21:22and be your wife.
01:21:26Thank you for that, too.
01:21:32I can promise you nothing.
01:21:35I have no money
01:21:36and there'll be a lot of pain.
01:21:39So?
01:21:40But in time,
01:21:41when the pain is gone,
01:21:44we will look at what we have done
01:21:46and say,
01:21:47look!
01:21:49We have come through.
01:21:50We have come through.
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